Talking metaphors: metaphors and the philosophy of language

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Talking metaphors: metaphors and the philosophy of language

In this dissertation I defend a non-indexicalist contextualist account of metaphorical interpretation. This theory, which works within Kaplan’s double-index semantic framework, claims that context does not have the only role of determining the content expressed by an utterance, but also the function...

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Main Author:	Gentile, Francesco Paolo
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13402/

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