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Deliberate Metaphor Theory: Basic assumptions, main tenets, urgent issues
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2017 AbstractIn 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 disciplines.
Gerard Steen
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Does deliberate metaphor theory have a future?
Journal of Pragmatics, 2015Does deliberate metaphor theory (DMT) have a future within the interdisciplinary world of metaphor scholarship? My belief is that DMT can possibly make an important contribution to the study of metaphors in communication. However, many of its current assumptions fatally undermine its empirical validity and theoretical credibility.
Raymond W Gibbs
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Journal of Pragmatics, 2015
Abstract Different signals, or tuning devices, in language, including certain discourse markers, comparatives, intensifiers and semantic meta-language, sometimes accompany verbal metaphors. Some scholars have claimed that these signals give evidence of “deliberate metaphor” use on the part of speakers and writers.
Raymond W Gibbs
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Abstract Different signals, or tuning devices, in language, including certain discourse markers, comparatives, intensifiers and semantic meta-language, sometimes accompany verbal metaphors. Some scholars have claimed that these signals give evidence of “deliberate metaphor” use on the part of speakers and writers.
Raymond W Gibbs
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Developing, testing and interpreting Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Journal of Pragmatics, 2015The idea that there is a distinction between the deliberate and non-deliberate use of metaphor is controversial(e.g., Gibbs, 2011; Charteris-Black, 2012). According to the dominant view of metaphor, metaphor works automaticallyandunconsciously(e.g.,Gibbs,2008).Asaresult,deliberatemetaphorusesoundslikeanimpossibility,a‘vacuousidea’even (Gibbs, 2011 ...
Gerard Steen
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The Role of Co-Text in the Analysis of Potentially Deliberate Metaphor [PDF]
Figurative 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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“Metamorphosis” in metaphor theory today: deliberateness in G.W.Bush´Speeches
, 2016 Treball final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938.
Silisteanu, Lacramioara Elena
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Review of Steen (2023): Slowing Metaphor Down. Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory
Metaphor and the Social WorldYang Gao, Deliang Wang
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Metaphor in Communication: The Distribution of Potentially Deliberate Metaphor Across Register and Word Class [PDF]
Corpora, 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.
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