Metaphor in Political Discourse
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Metaphor in Discourse
Many have thought that the principles of metaphorical interpretation cannot be formally specified. We’ll attack this position with two claims. Our first claim is that some aspects of metaphor are productive, and this productivity can be captured by perspicuous links between generalisations that are specified in the lexicon, and general purpose circumscriptive reasoning in the pragmatic componen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Armenian Folia Anglistika
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2579-3039,1829-0337
DOI: 10.46991/afa/2009.5.1-2.072