The Semantics of Metaphor / Samuel R. Levin.

• Author: Levin, Samuel R.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 158 pages :); illustrations)
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1977

Originally published in 1977. The Semantics of Metaphor presents a theory for the metaphoric construal of deviant sentences. The theory has two aspects. The first relates to metaphor considered as a productive process of language and describes the mechanisms that operate in its semantic interpretati...