LING 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Eyewitness Memory
14 Dec 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Linguistically, metaphorical meaning is just the same as literal. Metaphors work because of psychological mechanisms (the. Framing effect ) and are special just because of their psychological effects (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Metaphors force us to attend to a (often novel or surprising) likeness. There are no rules governing the generation or interpretation of: there is no test for metaphor that does not call for taste . Metaphors are open-ended, non-propositional, and not susceptible metaphor to paraphrase. There is no cognitive difference between word salad and metaphorical language. There are no better or worse metaphors or ways of interpreting a metaphor. There is no such things as a metaphorical truth. Black illustrates what he calls the commonsense of the production and understanding of metaphor, through an analysis of davidson"s remark metaphor is the dreamwork of language . The commonsense of metaphor is rejected by davidson.
