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Jan 1, 2010 · The results are unequivocal: the right column indicates that consistent ontologies – based on the stricter similarity constraint – do not reach a quarter of all metaphor pairs in either paper.6 The mixed source domain ontologies are vastly dominant, both in the rich image and image schema categories and, if either one or the other are considered, make up 76% of the metaphors.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
The results are unequivocal: the right column indicates that consistent ontologies – based on the stricter similarity constraint – do not reach a quarter of all metaphor pairs in either paper.6 The mixed source domain ontologies are vastly dominant, both in the rich image and image schema categories and, if either one or the other are considered, make up 76% of the metaphors.
- Michael Kimmel
Nov 3, 2022 · A mixed metaphor is a metaphor that combines two inconsistent or incongruous framings. For example, consider the mixed metaphor “we will need to iron out the bottlenecks”. This metaphor mixes framing the issue as a wrinkle that can be smoothed out through ironing, and a bottleneck that disrupts the flow. This doesn’t create a very clear ...
Jan 31, 2010 · An interesting finding regarding mixed metaphor is that all the mixed metaphors (regarding the data of governors and mayors), in this book, consist of the following pairs: Journey and War, Journey ...
This paper explores why speakers and addressees seem to have no problem in making sense of mixed metaphors. We will argue that the mixing of metaphors reveals something about the nature of conventionalized metaphoric meaning that is as interesting for cognitive linguists as speech errors are for psycholinguists. First, it shows that so-called ...
Abstract. Mixing metaphors in speech, writing, and even gesture, is traditionally viewed as a sign of inconsistency in thought and language. Despite the prominence of mixed metaphors, there have been surprisingly few attempts to comprehensively explain why people mix their metaphors so frequently and in the particular ways they do.
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Apr 12, 1999 · This paper provides an analysis of both parallel and serial mixed metaphors within the framework of an AI system which is already capable of reasoning about straight metaphorical manifestations and argues that the processes underlying mixing are central to metaphorical meaning. Mixed metaphors have been neglected in recent metaphor research. This paper suggests that such neglect is short ...
