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Johnson, Mark. 1980. A philosophical perspective on the problems of metaphor. In Honeck, Richard P. and Robert R. Hoffman, eds. Cognition and figurative language. L. Erlbaum. pp. 47–67.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject

Annotation

A general survey of some basic problems concerning the phenomenon of methaphor (what is it, how does it work, what is its cognitive status), and an attempt to describe a model of metaphoric comprehension on the basis of some of Kant's views.