The Semantics of Metaphor
Samuel R. Levin.
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The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1977
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-154) and index.
Pragmatic deviance -- The problem of linguistically deviant expressions -- Modes of construal -- The construal rules -- Comparison of the theory (T) with other theories of metaphor -- Metaphor and truth -- Poetic metaphor.
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Truth. Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences. Metaphor. Semantics.