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The “priority of literal meaning” over metaphorical meaning [] represents a strong intuition of speakers rooted in “what the speaker knows about his own language”, we could say in his linguistic competence and it has been the cornerstone of hypotheses about metaphor for centuries, so much so that the most intuitive and immediate way to define “metaphorical meaning” is precisely in ...
- The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphorical Language
4 The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphor. Metaphor appears to...
- The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphorical Language
Aug 1, 2023 · These pragmatic complexities affect both the cognitive effort and effects which emerge from interpreting metaphors in discourse. This conclusion suggests the need for new experimental studies and for theories of metaphor to be more sensitive to the influence of complex pragmatic goals in online metaphor interpretation. Previous.
2.3.2 The Pragmatics of Metaphor. Pragmatics is the study of intended “speaker meaning” (Cooper 1986: 88) as it appears in a certain verbal and situational context which provides certain propositions that go beyond the limits of the direct semantic associations of utterances. As such, the pragmatic meaning of an utterance is a feature of ...
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. This type of approach analyses metaphor as resulting from an overt violation of the maxim of quality (involving ...
- Xose Rosales Sequeiros
- 2016
The starting point is an exploration of the birth of the first pragmatic models of metaphor against the background of the then prevailing views of metaphor in linguistics. The first pragmatic elaboration of Grice's programme focuses on notion of implicature and on what role it plays, at various points, in getting from 'what is (literally) said' to 'what is (metaphorically) meant'.
- Miriam Taverniers
- 2017
Jan 1, 2022 · 1. The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphorical Language. 1. Bálint For gács. Abstract. Figures of speech have been suggested to play important pragmatic roles in language. Yet the. nature of these ...
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Dec 3, 2021 · 4 The Pragmatic Functions of Metaphor. Metaphor appears to play various roles in human communication, which makes it unique among the tropes and other forms of loose language use. Its expressive power has been recognized for millennia and it has been utilized by poets and rhetors ever since.
