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Hi Ckinkey-- welcome to English Forums. A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare). 2.
- Hi Ckinkey-- welcome to English Forums.
- A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare).
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Hi Ckinkey-- welcome to English Forums.
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare). 2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare). 2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been
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Confining ourselves to the simplest subject-predicate cases, we can say that the general form of a metaphorical utterance is that a speaker utters a sentence of the form "S is P" and means metaphorically that S is R.
Examples:
S is P: Sally is a block of ice.
S is R: Sally is an extremely unemotional and unresponsive pe
Confining ourselves to the simplest subject-predicate cases, we can say that the general form of a metaphorical utterance is that a speaker utters a sentence of the form "S is P" and means metaphorically that S is R.
Examples:
S is P: Sally is a block of ice.
S is R: Sally is an extremely unemotional and unresponsive pe
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CalifJimAnd just to underscore it, that phrase is a metaphoric utterance only when it is not meant to be descriptive of the actual thermostatic reading in the room, (which could, I suppose, go up [to 98.6 degrees] if the arguing person's cannot stop arguing.)
Metaphoric Utterance: It's getting hot in here.
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Yes, yes. It was actually more clear in Searle's book. As I recall, he puts either "Literal Utterance" or "Metaphoric Utterance" before the sentences when he means to examine them as literal or metaphoric utterances, respectively. He might just as easily have written,
Literal Utterance: It's getting hot in here.
had he wanted to discuss the sentence as a literal utterance
Literal Utterance: It's getting hot in here.
had he wanted to discuss the sentence as a literal utterance
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