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What do metaphors communicate? Some questions for the current relevance theory account of metaphor comprehension| old_uid | 2750 |
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| title | What do metaphors communicate? Some questions for the current relevance theory account of metaphor comprehension |
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| start_date | 2007/05/03 |
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| schedule | 11h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | The relevance theory account of metaphor comprehension has been revised in recent years to accommodate a reassessment of what is communicated. A consequence of the development of the notion of ad hoc concept construction for concept loosening is that metaphor utterances are now assumed to communicate the propositions they express, with the concept decoded from the metaphor vehicle (in the case of subject-predicate metaphors) being adjusted together with and in relation to the calculation of implicatures. The inferential process has become more complex in response to the recognition that properties applied to the metaphor topic concept are not taken directly from any context made straightforwardly accessible by the encyclopaedic entry of the metaphor vehicle concept (the emergent properties problem). I raise questions for aspects of the solutions that the revised account offers and go on to question whether an inferential explicature/implicature account can, in any case, do justice to our sense of what metaphors communicate. |
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| responsibles | Berger |
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