Publications

Publication details [#51030]

Wearing, Catherine. 2009. Metaphor and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (5) : 1017–1028.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural constraint | metaphor | natural semantic metalanguage | paraphrase1 | script

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the significance of paraphrasing metaphors for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage view. It is argued that successful paraphrasing prospects are less promising than supposed, and that the cultural script cannot sufficiently account for metaphor use, if not supplemented.