Metaphor, meaning, and interpretation

Jonathan Berg

doi:10.1016/0378-2166(88)90053-7

Metaphor, meaning, and interpretation

Jonathan Berg

Department of Philosophy

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This paper concerns the status of metaphorical meaning (and not the mechanics of how it is determined). Contra Black and Beardsley, the propositional content of metaphorical meaning must be distinguished from its nonpropositional content. Contra Davidson, nonliteral metaphorical meaning does exist, and contra Searle, it is not equivalent to speaker meaning. Metaphorical meaning is better seen as the value of one of a variety of interpretation operators mediating between literal meaning and speaker meaning.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	695-709
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Pragmatics
Volume	12
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(88)90053-7
State	Published - Dec 1988

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Artificial Intelligence

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