Metaphor, relevance and the 'emergent property' issue

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A deflationary account of metaphors (2008, background): “…of linguistic metaphors, and as contributing to the interpretation process on the effort side, by altering the accessibility of contextual assumptions and implications, rather than playing the central role assigned to them in most cognitive linguistic accounts (see Wilson and Carston 2006).”
The Paradox of Metaphor: Why We Need a Three-Dimensional Model of Metaphor (2008, methodology): “An example here would be a sentence such as my lawyer is a shark, in which shark is analyzed as referring to a superordinate category that encompasses both lawyers and sharks as entities that are vicious, aggressive, merciless, and so on ( Glucksberg & Haught, 2006: 362).”