Problems of Paraphrase: Bottom's Dream
Philosophers and critics alike often contend that metaphors cannot or should not be paraphrased, ever. Yet a simple and decisive empirical argument — The Horse’s Mouth Argument—suffices to show that many metaphors can be paraphrased without violating the spirit in which they were put forward in the...
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| Language: | English |
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New Prairie Press
2008-08-01
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| Series: | The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v3i0.22 |