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Metaphor in Communication: The Distribution of Potentially Deliberate Metaphor Across Register and Word Class [PDF]

open access: yesCorpora, 2019
There is renewed interest in the special role that metaphor can have in its communicative status as metaphor between language users. This paper investigates the occurrence of such deliberate metaphors in comparison with non-deliberate metaphors. To this end, a corpus of 24,762 metaphors was analysed for the presence of potentially deliberate (versus ...
Christian Burgers   +2 more
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The Role of Co-Text in the Analysis of Potentially Deliberate Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yesFigurative Thought and Language, 2020
Taking Deliberate Metaphor Theory (Steen, 2015) as a starting point, this chapter investigates the way in which co-text influences the identification and analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor in discourse.
Christian Burgers   +2 more
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Deliberate Metaphor Theory: Basic Assumptions, Main Tenets, Urgent Issues

open access: yesIntercultural Pragmatics, 2017
In response to two recent publications about Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT) in this journal, I argue that DMT advances metaphor studies into a period with new and exciting research challenges and possibilities for application between various ...
Gerard Steen
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The Relevance of Metaphor in Argumentation. Uniting Pragma-Dialectics and Deliberate Metaphor Theory

open access: yesJournal of Pragmatics, 2020
Abstract Argumentative discussions can contain various types of metaphor, but these do not all fulfil the same function in discourse: while some seem to express part of the argumentation, others seem to be irrelevant. So far, argumentation research has not explained when metaphors should be considered relevant for argumentation.
Lotte van Poppel
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