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- The simple fact is that people usually have complex pragmatic aims when they use linguistic metaphors which affect how specific metaphorical meanings are actually inferred. People employ metaphorical language not just to convey metaphorical meaning, but to concretely achieve various social, pragmatic goals.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027723000896Pragmatic complexity in metaphor interpretation - ScienceDirect
Dec 3, 2021 · Here I propose that metaphor has two main pragmatic functions: first, we can speak metaphorically with the aim of creating two parallel layers of meaning, a figurative and a literal one, which allows for social bargains and veiled conversations, similarly to indirect speech.
- Bálint Forgács
Jul 11, 2016 · This article examines the pragmatic interpretation of metaphor. It first looks at traditional approaches to this phenomenon, such as the Gricean model, which classify metaphor alongside other tropes like hyperbole or understatement.
- Xose Rosales Sequeiros
- 2016
This chapter responds to criticisms of Conceptual Metaphor Theory by offering an alternative framework for the construction of metaphorical meaning. It provides a comprehensive overview of how the pragmatic literature explores the interplay between literal and metaphorical meanings.
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
Aug 1, 2023 · People employ metaphorical language not just to convey metaphorical meanings, but to concretely achieve various social, pragmatic goals. I describe several pragmatic complexities in the ways verbal and non-verbal metaphors function in communication.
Jan 1, 2022 · semantic and specific pragmatic aspects of metaphor. There is no commonly accepted definition of what metaphor is, but it can be thought of as an expression linking two distinct concepts and ...
- Bálint Forgács
While many linguists and psychologists have argued for the benefits of studying metaphor using a pragmatics frame-work, to our knowledge there is no formal model showing that effects in metaphor understanding may arise from basic principles of communication.
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Figures of speech have been suggested to play important pragmatic roles in language. Yet the nature of these pragmatic functions has not been specified in detail, and it is not clear what particular social-communicative purposes metaphors fulfill.
