Objects of Metaphor phần 1 ppt

[...]... separation of issues surrounding speaker-hearer identification of metaphor from issues centered on the nature of metaphor Perhaps this is at least a small part of (R)'s perennial appeal in writing on metaphor 12 Clearing a Space of (R) has its metaphorical effect, this induces changes in the meanings of its contained words? Dealing with these kinds of question is crucial to the whole project of giving... intelligible 1. 2.2 Content sufciency Davidson's Content Insufficient account is easy to misunderstand, and that is why I spent some time on it The problem with Content Sufficient accounts is not so much misunderstanding as variety: there are a great many of them in the literature Each of Beardsley (19 62), Black (19 54–5, 19 62, 11 12 13 See in this regard Davies 19 82/3 and Moran 19 97 The example is in Grice 19 57... range of metaphors and metaphor phenomena In the long Chapter 4, I address this worry head-on, by showing how the unadorned account of Chapter 3 accommodates complexity and richness in metaphor, and by describing how the account manages to encompass a wide variety of other 1 In an effort to keep the reader onside, I do offer a sketch of at least the main outlines of my account at the end of Ch 1 Introduction... classification of accounts of metaphor, and illustrated each 14 In his last published word on metaphor before his death, he says a number of things which might tempt one to think of his view as Content Insufficient and, therefore, closer to Searle's The next note explains why it would be wrong to give in to this temptation 15 Black writes (19 79 /19 93: 28): ‘In Metaphor I said—scandalizing some of my subsequent... manipulation was not commonplace, and nowadays we might well think of photographs as little more than sketches Still, Grice's point is clear enough 14 Clearing a Space 19 79 /19 93), Goodman (19 76), Cohen (19 79 /19 93), and, more recently, Kittay (19 87) offer importantly different accounts of how to come up with expression meanings that make metaphorical utterances intelligible However, since these differences... what a philosophical account of metaphor involves, and I will be able to say something about the nature of the phenomenon of metaphor itself The place to begin is with some frank talk The phenomenon of metaphor has mainly been a nuisance to philosophers of language It is a thorn in the side of those whose aim is to give a smooth and comprehensive account of the notion of meaning And this true whether... comprehension than literal sentences of similar syntactic complexity Of course, I could have given 21 Sentence (2) is of course from Kant (17 84 /19 12: 23); (3) is from Don Delilo's Underworld (19 99: 446); (6) is a typical journalistic remark The others were fabricated for the occasion 22 Clearing a Space examples of metaphors so commonly used as to make certain of transparency, but it would be easy... example of a metaphor as opposed to the questionable Richard-is-a-lion type cases But it is not a perfect example It encourages the mistaken idea that metaphors are essentially of the subject-predicate form, even though, of course, it is actually syntactically and semantically more complicated than the usual S-is-P sort of case My own account offers a way of naturally accommodating metaphors of an unlimited... to give an account of metaphor in the case at hand, to tell a story about what makes Romeo's act intelligible It is quite another thing to give an account of how we might come to recognize, in any particular case, that we have encountered an instance of metaphor To be sure, it can look as if the problem of accounting for metaphor is bound up with the problem of Clearing a Space 11 identification because... correct account of metaphor It is partly because of my desire to keep the problems separate that I chose (R) as my initial example, No one doubts that Romeo's claim is metaphorical—even in the absence of any detailed account of how we come to know this Yet this simple utterance is enough to show just how little we can be certain of, or can justifiably say, about the nature of metaphor. 9 Of course, as . wide variety of other 2 Introduction 1 In an effort to keep the reader onside, I do offer a sketch of at least the main outlines of my account at the end of Ch. 1. phenomena of metaphor. Under. begin the study of metaphor; a defence of the robustness of metaphor as a theoretical kind, crucial to the study of meaning; a way of distinguishing metaphor from other members of the trope family,. account of metaphor. Philosophers who write about metaphor might not have the subtlety of those who approach the subject from a literary point of view, nor offer the promise that psychology does of