| Titre | La métaphore : de la définition à la typologie | |
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| Auteur | Michèle Prandi | |
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Revue | Langue française |
| Numéro | no 134, mai 2002 Nouvelles approches de la métaphore, sous la direction de Antoinette Balibar-Mrabti et Mirella Conenna | |
| Page | 6-20 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Metaphor: from definition to typology.
The main point of this paper is that no consistent definition of metaphor can be at once general and adequate. If a definition is so broad as to include the whole set of metaphors, it simply circumscribes from outside a layered category without saying anything about the qualifying properties of the different kinds it includes. The alternative proposed is to combine a definition broad enough to include any kind of metaphor with a fine-grained typology isolating the main parameters whose variation defines the different kinds of metaphor. At this point, the relevant question is not the Socratic one - What is metaphor - but a question dealing with typicality - namely, What kind of metaphor valorizes at its best the potential of the figure? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lfr_0023-8368_2002_num_134_1_6450 |
