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7. Conclusion and outlook Mixed metaphors are frequent and they seem, in most cases, unproblematic to deal with when they complement each other and enrich the meaning of a text passage. Studying mixed metaphors casts an interesting light on the relation between metaphor and more inclusive and structurally complex discourse units like arguments.
- Michael Kimmel
Jan 1, 2010 · 7. Conclusion and outlook Mixed metaphors are frequent and they seem, in most cases, unproblematic to deal with when they complement each other and enrich the meaning of a text passage. Studying mixed metaphors casts an interesting light on the relation between metaphor and more inclusive and structurally complex discourse units like arguments.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
Jun 21, 2022 · Mixed Metaphors Explained: 8 Examples of Mixed Metaphors. A well-crafted metaphor uses consistent imagery ("hitting the nail on the head”); when you start mixing imagery ("hitting the nail on the nose"), you can create a type of malapropism known as a mixed metaphor. A well-crafted metaphor uses consistent imagery ("hitting the nail on the ...
The speaker uses a mixed metaphor to set out the evening sky. The first metaphor compares the evening sky to something that is “spread out.”. It describes a flat and expansive surface. The second metaphor compares the evening sky to a patient who has been anesthetized (etherized)and is lying on a table likely in preparation for surgery ...
Jan 1, 2010 · First, it turns out that journalists combine metaphors into complex, yet well-formed arguments on a regular basis, with 39% and 62% of all metaphors respectively occurring in clusters. Even more strikingly, the data reveals that ontologically mixed metaphors account for 76% of all clusters and that almost all of these are straightforwardly comprehensible.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
Jan 31, 2010 · Crisp et al. (2002) propose the following definition: "mixed metaphor arises when multiple or complex metaphor contains metaphorical items which may be derived from more than one source domain ...
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The paper explores the phenomenon of metaphors that occur in close textual adjacency, i.e. as metaphor clusters, but do not share a similar cognitive basis. Clusters frequently mix ontologies and are thus devoid of coherence that can be explained as emerging from a single conceptual metaphor. Evidence to that effect comes from a British corpus (Sun and Guardian) of 675 newspaper commentaries ...
