Metaphorical content as what is said
- 作者：Patti D. Nogales ; pnoggin@yahoo.com ; [Author Vitae]
- 关键词：Metaphor ; Metaphorical content ; Gricean implicature ; What is said ; What is implied ; Pragmatics ; Locutionary ; Illocutionary ; Underdetermination of content ; Indeterminacy of content ; Reconceptualization ; Conceptual context ; Taxonomy
- 刊名：Journal of Pragmatics
- 出版年：2012
- 期刊代码：79_03782166
- 类别：cp
- 出版时间：June, 2012
- 卷：44
- 期：8
- 页码：997-1008
- 文件大小：209 K
摘要
Most pragmatic theorists of metaphor classify the metaphorical content of metaphors such as 鈥淢argaret Thatcher is a bulldozer鈥?as what is implicated (rather than as what is said). However, metaphorical content cannot be classified as what is implicated because it is not consistent with the proposition of which it is supposed to be an implicature. That is, because Margaret Thatcher cannot be both a pushy person and a machine, metaphorical content cannot be an implicature of the literal content. Furthermore, in metaphor the speaker has a commitment to the metaphorical content instead of to the literal content, not in addition to it. Hence metaphorical content must be 鈥渨hat is said.鈥?/div>