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Mar 31, 2024 · According to Davidson, the relationship between metaphor and mental imagery is closely related to the rejection of metaphorical meaning: metaphor cannot be studied with the tools of pragmatics and with the notions of “truth condition,” “meaning,” implicature, or contextual modulation.
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3 Virtually every possible relation between a metaphor and its corresponding simile has its advocates: metaphors as elliptical similes, similes as hedged metaphors, distinct tropes with much the same effects, distinct tropes with significantly different effects, and others.
In recent years, metaphor has attracted more than its share of both philosophical and critical attention, including philosophical deni-als of the obvious, as well as critical challenges to the obviousness of the ways we talk about metaphor. In this paper I discuss a problem of each sort and suggest a complex of relations between them. The par-
Mar 31, 2024 · What is the relationship between literal meaning and metaphorical meaning? What role do non-propositional entities, such as mental imagery, play in constructing the meaning of a metaphor?
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
First, to show how conceptual structure derives from embodiment by pro-viding the reader with a general introduction to three theoretical notions that are central to the cognitive linguistic approach to embodied cognition, namely image schema, metaphor and metonymy.2 Second, to show how these guiding principles of embodied cognition play a cruci...
We then discuss recent research that examines whether and how metaphor shapes attitudes and reasoning, outlining some of the cognitive, affective, and social forces that moderate the efficacy of metaphors on deci-sion making.
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Dec 16, 2022 · 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.
