![]() ![]() This paper focuses on the first aspect, since extensive treatments of the different ways in which metaphors can be classified are relatively rare in the literature on metaphor, while distinctions and relations between theoretical frameworks have often been highlighted (cf. the definition and explanation of metaphor as a linguistic process. the recognition and classification of different categories of metaphors as linguistic expressions and (ii) theories of metaphor, i.e. ![]() ![]() In the linguistic study of metaphor as a whole, two general aspects are important: (i) types of metaphors, i.e. This paper focuses on the conception of metaphor in linguistics (the primary theoretical niche of the Handbook of Pragmatics), and, to a lesser extent, philosophical theories of metaphor (philosophy being the first field in which metaphor came to be looked at). ![]()
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