Objects of Metaphor
Guttenplan, Samuel Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928089-6
doi:10.1093/0199280894.003.0001
Introduction
Samuel Guttenplan
This introductory chapter provides a brief discussion on what a philosophical account of metaphor should aim for, as well as a characterization of the goals and strategy in providing yet another such account.
Keywords: metaphor, tropes, figurative, non-literal,
doi:10.1093/0199280894.003.0001
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Introduction
1 Clearing a Space
2 Object and Word
3 The Semantic Descent Account
4 Embellishment
5 Competitors
Epilogue : Language and Thought
Bibliography
Index
 
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