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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 18–42

Chapter 1
Metaphor

Article outline
  • 1.1Introduction
  • 1.2Defining metaphor
    • Reference and sense
    • Modification
    • Assignment
  • 1.3Problems of the literal-metaphorical distinction
  • 1.4Clines of metaphor
    • 1.4.1Approximation and varieties of similarity
    • 1.4.2Contradictoriness
    • 1.4.3Explicitness and marking
    • 1.4.4Conventionality
  • 1.5Conceptual metaphor and the experientialist hypothesis
  • 1.6Lexicographical evidence to test Lakoff’s theory: The Thesaurus
  • Note
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