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<p>The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semantic theory. In this book Josef Stern challenges these assumptions. He is concerned primarily with the question: Given t
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- Author
- William H Colvin Professor of Philosophy Josef Stern
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262194396
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Psychology, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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