The purpose of Jacob Mey's article is to consider metaphor as a kind of activity in the spirit of Levinson's "Activity Types" or of Mey's "Pragmatic Acts". In this sense, he rejects the idea that metaphor belongs exclusively to the domain of abstract reasoning or is merely a linguistic or a psychological process. As our activities are essentially socially based and our conceptualizations must represent the social aspect of our actions, metaphors are socially important representations of activities. In other words, 'they are instances of pragmatic acting.' (p. 57, this volume). Thus, Mey approaches metaphor within a pragmatic perspective, proposing a more fertile conception of metaphor based in the 'anchoring' in the world, more specifically in the world of our activities. (M. Zanotto, M. Asperti Nardi and S. Coelho Vereza)