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...

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Publicado en:Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 41 - 63
Autor principal: Barnden, John
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Mar2015
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