Metaphor and What is Said

• Published in: Mind & language Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 310 - 332
• Main Author: WEARING, CATHERINE
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

:  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...