Metaphor, Simile, and the Exaggeration of Likeness.
This article reveals an overlooked way of interpreting sentences like“The Internet is crack [cocaine]”or“Libraries are supermarkets.”Many existing theories of metaphor could apply here. However, they can instead be interpreted in alikeness-exaggeratingway, under which“Libraries are supermarkets”is s...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 41 - 63 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan-Mar2015
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