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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-
Jan 1, 2010 · The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them.
- Michael Kimmel
- 2010
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.
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between visual imagery and metaphor, highlighting the historical neglect of this relationship in philosophy and cognitive science and exploring the reasons behind this neglect in theoretical and empirical studies.
The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them.
- Michael Kimmel
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?
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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.
