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XIII—Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts, Literal Meaning and Mental Images
Article first published online: 20 DEC 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2010.00288.x
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)
Volume 110, Issue 3pt3, pages 295–321, October 2010
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Carston, R. (2010), XIII—Metaphor: Ad Hoc Concepts, Literal Meaning and Mental Images. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), 110: 295–321. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2010.00288.x
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- Issue published online: 20 DEC 2010
- Article first published online: 20 DEC 2010
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I propose that an account of metaphor understanding which covers the full range of cases has to allow for two routes or modes of processing. One is a process of rapid, local, on-line concept construction that applies quite generally to the recovery of word meaning in utterance comprehension. The other requires a greater focus on the literal meaning of sentences or texts, which is metarepresented as a whole and subjected to more global, reflective pragmatic inference. The questions whether metaphors convey a propositional content and what role imagistic representation plays receive somewhat different answers depending on the processing route.