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Grady, Joseph, Sarah F. Taub and Pamela S. Morgan. 1996. Primitive and compound metaphors. In Goldberg, Adele E. Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 17–187. 171 pp.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Stanford: CSLI Publications
Abstract
This paper concerns a number of difficulties which arise from trying to reconcile the theory of conceptual metaphor with particular metaphorical cases. The problems are of various types - for instance, some concern data while others concern metatheoretical questions about the relationships between metaphors - but all are addressed by an account which treats complex metaphors as "compounds" decomposable into "primitives".
(Adele Goldberg)