Metaphor, similarity and semantics fields
(1992) p.195-214- Abstract
- A variant of the compatrison theory of metaphor is put forward. The main points are (a) a theory of metaphor belongs to semantics, not pragmatics, (b) a metaphorical statement is a similarity statement, usually comparing descriptions of objects, (c) a metaphor is a constellation of words connected by a certain kind of relation - the metaphorical link, (d) metaphors are not necessarily asymmetric, (e) what expressions copunt as metaphors in a certain language has to do with the semantic fields of the language in question.
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- author
- Brinck, Ingar LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1992
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Understanding the Arts
- editor
- Emt, Jeanette and Hermerén, Göran
- pages
- 195 - 214
- publisher
- Lund University Press
- ISBN
- 0-86238-2904
- 91-7966-157-2
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 629cda0a-f391-4b3b-b902-503074ccf2e6 (old id 833636)
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