The Semantics of Metaphor

• Auteur principal: Levin, Samuel R. (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Sujets: Literary theory
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1977. The Semantics of Metaphor presents a theory for the metaphoric construal of deviant sentences. The theory has two aspects. The first relates to metaphor considered as a productive process of language and describes the mechanisms that operate in its semantic interpretati...