Leseprobe
Contents
1.1.Introduction to Metaphors
1.2. The Features of Metaphors
1.2.1. Metaphors as tropes
1.2.2. Conventionality issues
1.2. 3. Analogical mapping
1.2.4. Asymmetry
1.2.5. Systematicity
1.2.5 Abstraction
1.3. The Functions of Metaphors
1.3.1. Stylistic and ideological effects
1.3.2. Cognitive effects and theory drafting
2.1 Theories of meaning
2.2. Paper Thesis: The Importance of the Context
3.1. The Principles of Compositionality
3.2. The challenge metaphors pose to the Principles of Compositionality
3.3. How the Principles of Compositionality fail to interpret metaphors
4.1. Grice’s Principles of Communication
4.2. The challenge metaphors pose to Grice’s Principles of communication
5. Conclusion: The key importance of the context in the interpretation of metaphors
References
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- Georgia Foskolou (Autor:in), 2019, Interpreting Metaphors through Theories of Meaning. Conventional and Literal Meaning, München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/498954
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