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Publication details [#56278]

Nogales, Patti D. 2012. Metaphorical content as what is said. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (8) : 997–1008.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | implicature | metaphor | proposition

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that metaphorical content cannot be classified as what is implicated because it is not consistent with the proposition of which it is supposed to be an implicature. Therefore metaphorical content must be “what is said.”