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Clé de citation BibTeX: Glucksberg1997
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Glucksberg, S., & Keysar, B. (1997). Understanding metaphorical comparisons : beyond similarity. Psychological Review, 97(1), pp. 3–18.
Ajoutée par: Lynda Taabane 2007-12-19 11:41:08
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Résumé
Traditionally, metaphors such as "my job is a jail" have been treated as implicit similes (i.e., this
metaphor would be treated as if it were a comparison statement, "my job is like a jail"). Tversky's
account of similarity is applied to such nonliteral similarity expressions, and is shown to apply as
readily to nonliteral comparisons as to literal comparisons. But treating metaphors as comparison
statements fails to account for certain important phenomena, including metaphoricity itself (the
judgment that a comparison statement is nonliteral). We argue that metaphors are exactly what they
appear to be: class-inclusion assertions, in which the topic of the metaphor (e.g., "my job") is assigned
to a diagnostic category (e.g., entities that confine one against one's will, are unpleasant, are
difficult to escape from). In such assertions, the metaphor vehicle (e.g., "jail") refers to that category,
and at the same time is a prototypical exemplar of that category. This account of metaphor provides
a basis for a theory of metaphor comprehension, and also clarifies why people use metaphors instead
of similes.
Ajoutée par: Lynda Taabane
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