@misc{10481/97052,
year = {2021},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/97052},
abstract = {In this chapter, we expound theories of metaphor, focusing on their recent developments and controversies. To begin with, we discuss the sceptical strategy on metaphorical propositional contents. Although sceptics (Davidson, 1978; Lepore & Stone, 2015) reject metaphorical meaning, they support Black’s defence of a distinctive role for metaphor: seeing one thing as another. Disagreements with sceptics are abundant. The notion of metaphorical meaning (as part of speaker’s meaning rather than of the linguistic meaning) is often considered as a useful notion to account for some of the characteristics of the metaphorical use of language. Thus, we also consider the non-sceptical arguments for metaphorical meaning and take account of two main issues. The first concerns whether the production of metaphorical effects (propositional or non-propositional) have particular characteristics or not. In relation to this, we examine, on the one hand, how some scholars take a deflationary position according to which the meanings of many other kinds of utterances are explained in the same way as the metaphorical ones (Sperber & Wilson, 1986/95, 2008; Carston, 2002; Wilson & Carston, 2006). On the other, we consider non-deflationary accounts of metaphor according to which the peculiar characteristics of metaphorical meaning reveal the cognitive value of novel metaphor (Black, 1954-5, 1977; Indurkhya, 1986; Kittay, 1987; Forceville, 1991; Romero & Soria, 1997-8; Gentner & Wolf, 2000). The second issue concerns the debate on metaphorical meaning as part of two types of propositional contents involved in speaker’s meaning; implicature (Grice, 1975/89; Kittay, 1987; Borg, 2012) or what is said (Romero & Soria, 1997-8; Stern, 2000).},
organization = {Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities  PGC2018-098236-B-I0},
publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
title = {Philosophy of Language and Metaphor},
author = {Romero González, María Esther and Soria Clivilles, María Belén},
}