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Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence, conceptual metaphor, and beyond
- Michael Kimmel
Mixed metaphors that involve one or more metaphorical idioms, like the ones . above, seem to be specially prominent cases of all mixed metaphor, which con-cerns a slightly more subtle matter. Generally, mixed metaphor simply depends on a noticeable clash between the non-metaphorical meanings of two metaphorical
The Discontinuity between Metaphor in Literature and Metaphor Outside Literature An important influence on modern linguistic approaches to literary texts has been the Formalist view of literature (and poetry in particular) as characterised by ‘the aesthetically intentional distortion of the linguistic components of the work, in other words the intentional violation of the norms of the ...
- Gerard Steen
in general sceptical about the notion of mixed metaphors which she attributes to linguistic prescriptivism, and concludes that “the question why two metaphors cannot be used in one context if they come from different conceptual domains has not been answered by mixed metaphor theorists yet” (p.261).
- Jordan Zlatev, Georgios Stampoulidis
- 2018
Trump's swamp metaphor draws on some of the more complex structural information of the source domain. Swamps serve important ecological functions (e.g., purifying surface water) and are home to life forms that humans value, such as lush green trees, bald eagles, and tad-poles.
Why mixed metaphors make sense 31 Cornelia Müller chapter 4 Tackling mixed metaphors in discourse: New corpus and psychological evidence 57 Julia E. Lonergan & Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Part II. Reasons for Mixing Metaphor chapter 5 Mixed metaphor: Its depth, its breadth, and a pretence-based approach 75 John Barnden chapter 6
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metaphors suggest genuinely new (rather than hidden or implicit) meanings. Philip Wheelwright recognized these two different functions of metaphor and called the one based upon an analogy an epiphor and the one producing a new meaning a diaphor.l Neither type of meta-phor occurs in a pure form; if there were pure epiphors, they would