A deflationary account of metaphors
By Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson. 2008
277 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Gerard Steen
- T. Krennmayr
- Elly Ifantidou
- J. Berenike Herrmann
- A. Dorst
- A. Kaal
- V. Evans
- Deirdre Wilson
In Language and Linguistics
- Gerard Steen
- Elly Ifantidou
- T. Krennmayr
- J. Berenike Herrmann
- A. Dorst
- A. Kaal
- V. Evans
- Deirdre Wilson
Citations in the corpus
- Newspaper headlines and relevance: Ad hoc concepts in ad hoc contexts (2009, methodology): “(Sperber and Wilson, 2008:95-98) In fact, as Sperber and Wilson (2008:95-98) observe, ‘‘. . . some people may have only a single encoded sense for ‘‘magician’’: someone with supernatural powers who performs magic.”
- How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction (2009, background): “And more specifically, the above-mentioned position that there is no principled distinction between interpreting literal and figurative language use also meshes with the explication within RT of figurative language use as just another example of “loose talk” (see, e.g., Sperber and Wilson 2008).”
- Speaker meaning and accountability in interaction (2013, unknown): “627), while Sperber et al. (2010) have more recently argued that “to fulfil the addressee’s expectations [of true and relevant information], the communicator should do her best to communicate true information” (p.”
- Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics (2011, background): “The broadening can be almost imperceptible, as in the following cases of approximation: 3 For recent relevance-theoretic treatments of metaphor, see e.g. Carston (2002), Higashimori (2002), Wilson and Sperber (2002), Vega Moreno (2007), Wilson and Carston (2007, 2008), Sperber and Wilson (2008).”
- Metaphor in usage (2010, background): “Critical perspectives from other schools in linguistics have been formulated by, for instance, Wierzbicka (1986), Jackendoff and Aaron (1991) and Sperber and Wilson (2008).”