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Publication details [#630]

Abraham, Werner and Kurt Braunmüller. 1971. Stil, Metapher und Pragmatik. Lingua 28 (1-2) : 1–47.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

German

Keywords

expectation | interlocutor | metaphor | presupposition | style

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Annotation

A. and B.'s main claim is that style is a function of pragmatic variables (the main pragmatic components being the speaker and the addressee, each with their own expectations and presuppositions). This point of view determines their approach to metaphor.