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Publication details [#48584]

Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. and Markus Tendahl. 2008. Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (11) : 1823–1864.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | language use | metaphor | pragmatics | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper assesses two directions of metaphor studies within linguistics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which both set out to capture fundamental facets of the reason for metaphor, and how people normally employ and comprehend metaphor in daily life.