Metaphor and What is Said

:  In this paper, I argue for an account of metaphorical content as what is said when a speaker utters a metaphor. First, I show that two other possibilities—the Gricean account of metaphor as implicature and the strictly semantic account developed by Josef Stern—face several serious problems. In th...

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Published inMind & language Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 310 - 332
Main Author WEARING, CATHERINE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2006
Blackwell
Subjects
Metaphors
Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Semantics
Semantics Discourse Relationship
Speech
Language philosophy
Metaphor
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Summary::  In this paper, I argue for an account of metaphorical content as what is said when a speaker utters a metaphor. First, I show that two other possibilities—the Gricean account of metaphor as implicature and the strictly semantic account developed by Josef Stern—face several serious problems. In their place, I propose an account that takes metaphorical content to cross‐cut the semantic‐pragmatic distinction. This requires re‐thinking the notion of metaphorical content, as well as the relation between the metaphorical and the literal.
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Particular thanks to Catherine Elgin, Richard Heck, Richard Moran, and Rob Stainton for many discussions and comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Thanks also to Anne Bezuidenhout, Ishani Maitra, Josef Stern, and an anonymous referee for this journal, as well as audiences at UCLA and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where this material was presented. This research was funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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ISSN:0268-1064
1468-0017
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-0017.2006.00280.x