Metaphor, Relevance Theory, and the Curious Nature of Cut-Off Points. A Philosophical Attempt to Understand the Tension Caused by Non-Propositional Effects
How to account for metaphor has long been a contentious issue within pragmatics. Revisiting this debate, Wilson & Carston (2019) analyse Grice’s oft-discussed exclusion of metaphor as an empirically unjustified use of cut-off points on the empirical continuum of language and link it a tension b...
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Philosophy Kitchen |
| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/philosophykitchen/article/view/7189 |