Stevens And Davidson's Concept Of Metaphor

Stroud-Drinkwater, Clive

English Studies 2001 82 (3)247-252
(ReLIS:jul:juljig:y:2001:v:82:i:3:p:247-252)

Abstract:

On what Max Black calls the ‘comparison view’, metaphors are abbreviated similes: one says ‘John is a lion’ meaning to say that – meaning that – John is like a lion. Thus the comparison view ‘reduces’ the false remark (that a human being is a lion) to the truth that a particular person is like a lion – a true remark since anything is like anything else (in some respect or other). Such a view invites araphrase in order to decipher the real meaning of a metaphor.

Keywords: Metáforas ; literatura inglesa
Pages: 247-252
Volume: 82
Year: 2001
Issue: 3

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