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By Josef Stern

ISBN-10: 0262194392

ISBN-13: 9780262194396

ISBN-10: 0262529580

ISBN-13: 9780262529587

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor during the last twenty years have normally taken without any consideration that metaphor lies open air, if now not against, acquired conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor can't be defined by way of or inside semantics, they declare that metaphor has little, if whatever, to coach us approximately semantic conception. during this e-book Josef Stern demanding situations those assumptions. he's involved basically with the query: Given the got notion of the shape and targets of semantic conception, does metaphorical interpretation, in entire or half, fall inside of its scope? particularly, he asks, what (if something) does a speaker-hearer recognize as a part of her semantic competence while she understands the translation of a metaphor?According to Stern, the reply to those questions lies within the systematic context-dependence of metaphorical interpretation. Drawing on a deep analogy among demonstratives, indexicals, and metaphors, Stern develops a proper thought of metaphorical which means that underlies a speaker's skill to interpret a metaphor. together with his semantics, he additionally addresses quite a few philosophical and linguistic concerns raised by way of metaphor. those comprise the interpretive constitution of complicated prolonged metaphors, the cognitive value of metaphors and their literal paraphrasability, the pictorial personality of metaphors, the position of similarity and exemplification in metaphorical interpretation, metaphor-networks, lifeless metaphors, the relation of metaphors to different figures, and the dependence of metaphors on literal meanings. not like so much metaphor theorists, in spite of the fact that, who take those difficulties to be sui generis to metaphor, Stern subsumes them lower than an analogous rubric as different semantic evidence that carry for nonmetaphorical language.

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