About the Openness of Metaphor
The paper discusses the openness of metaphor seen from three perspectives: from the addresser’s perspective (the openness of metaphor as the possibility of creating new meanings and semantic games), the addressee’s perspective (the openness of metaphor as the possibility of making more or less ex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/index.php/JaK/article/view/71 |
| Summary: | The paper discusses the openness of metaphor seen from three perspectives: from the
addresser’s perspective (the openness of metaphor as the possibility of creating new
meanings and semantic games), the addressee’s perspective (the openness of metaphor as
the possibility of making more or less extensive interpretations) and the researcher’s
perspective (the openness of metaphor as the fuzziness of the borders between the literal
and figurative meanings and the more and more extended manner of capturing the
phenomenon of metaphor itself). |
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| ISSN: | 2543-7844 2543-7844 |