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Publication details [#39077]

Berg, Jonathan. 1988. Metaphor, meaning, and interpretation. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 695–709.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | interpretation | meaning | metaphor | speaker meaning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with the status of metaphorical meaning. It is argued that its propositional content must be distinguished from its nonpropositional content and that nonliteral metaphorical meaning exists and it is not equivalent to speaker meaning.