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Lyon, Gordon. 2000. Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor. Language Sciences 22 (2) : 137–153.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0388-0001

Annotation

In this article, I offer a survey of the contributions of recent philosophy of language to the study of metaphor. I shall not discuss the ways in which metaphor has been treated in other branches of recent philosophy, for example the philosophy of science, nor, of course, the contributions of linguistics proper. Occasionally, I shall put forward a few ideas of my own, which have been suggested by the philosophical literature on the topic.