Metaphors and activity Metáfora e atividade

This paper considers metaphor as a kind of activity in the spirit of Levinson's 'Activity Types' or of Mey's 'Pragmatic Acts'. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, metaphors neither belong exclusively to the domain of abstract reasoning (such as by ana...

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Main Author: Jacob L. Mey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2006-01-01
Series:DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502006000300005