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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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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-
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.
Chapter 2. Embodying the Meaning: The Role of Image Schemas, Metaphors, and Metonymies. There is no severing, separation from, or bleaching out of the bodily dimensions of meaning. Mind is embodied, meaning is embodied, and thought is embodied in this most profound sense. —George Lakof and Mark Johnson1. The goal of this chapter is three-fold.
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.
Aug 1, 2018 · Writers may exploit this fact and enhance the impact of imagery by producing extended and/or creative metaphors, so that, although not essential, imagistic effects can be as significant as propositional cognitive effects.
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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.
