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Mar 31, 2024 · Abstract. This chapter explores the complicated relationship between mental imagery and metaphors, examining their historical connection and the claim that imagery is a characteristic feature of metaphors. In examining the discourse of metaphor over the past century, the focus is on the question of whether mental imagery, or “non ...
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
metaphors and other figurative language, there is rather little serious discussion of this question in the academic disciplines that study these uses of language, and certainly no agreement among those who do. Some psychologists think that imagery plays an essential role in an account of metaphor understanding, e.g., Gibbs & Bogonovich (1999, p.
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Dec 16, 2022 · Abstract. In this paper we will discuss how pragmatics (from Grice to Relevance theorists) has considered the relationship between mental imagery and metaphors and review evidence pointing towards an involvement of mental images in metaphor comprehension. We will argue that pragmatics has had the tendency to underestimate the importance of this ...
Sep 1, 2009 · In this essay I investigate how image metaphors—metaphors that link one concrete object to another, such as “her spread hand was a starfish”—promote visualization in the reader. Focusing on image metaphors in Imagist poetry, I assert that the two terms (e.g., the hand and the starfish) of many of these metaphors are similar in shape and that this “structural correspondence ...
- Daniel W. Gleason
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critically thought was there. In our relation to the meaningfulness of what we say, there is a disillusionment of plenitude as well as of emptiness. And no doubt what is "less" for one discipline may be "more" of what someone else is looking for. In recent y ears, metaphor has attracted more than its share of both philosophical and critical
Jun 22, 2017 · The association of metaphor with images has several sources, many of which are familiar enough to require only brief mention here. 3 The metaphorical relation between two things is typically taken to be based on some unobvious resemblance between them, or to be actually productive of such a resemblance. 4 Sometimes metaphor is regarded as itself a kind of composite picture, the result of two ...
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Aug 1, 2018 · 8 According to one group of philosophers, the phenomenal similarity between perception and mental imagery is explained by the fact that the content of the two mental states is the same; for example, the content of a percept of a red apple and the content of a mental image of a red apple are both some set of properties (perhaps redness, roundness, a particular size, edibleness, etc.) (Currie ...
