Metaphor and the 'Emergent Property' Problem: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach
The interpretation of metaphorical utterances often results in the attribution of emergent properties; these are properties which are neither standardly associated with the individual constituents of the utterance in isolation nor derivable by standard rules of semantic composition. For example, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2008-08-01
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| Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v3i0.23 |