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Publication details [#2928]

Eco, Umberto. 1979. The semantics of metaphor. In Eco, Umberto, ed. The role of the reader: Explorations in the semiotics of texts. Indiana UP. pp. 67–89.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor | metonymy

Annotation

The goal is to show that each metaphor in a text can be traced back to a subjacent chain of metonymic connections which constitute the framework of the code and upon which the constitution of any semantic field is based.