Who's Afraid Of A Paraphrase
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20143408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JERROLD LEVIN SON (University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-23 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-2567.2001.tb00194.x |
| OpenAlex | W2044601270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
I first show why Davidson was wrong to maintain that there is no such thing as metaphorical meaning, that which paraphrases strive to capture. I then sketch a conception of metaphors as utterances in contexts, and suggest how such utterances can acquire metaphorical meanings despite there being no semantic rules for the projection of such meanings. I next urge the essentiality of a metaphor's verbal formulation to its being the metaphor it is, and I conclude with some reflections on common and uncommon metaphors, and on the difficulty of finding strings of words resistant to metaphorical construal
Construal level theory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Metaphor · Paraphrase · Projection (relational algebra) · Sketch · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |