Metaphor
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:12 am
I found this very interesting article on metaphor and language and I thought that it might be interesting to others too.
Metaphor: How We Speak
Metaphor: How We Speak
ApoclimaThe study of metaphor presents a number of obvious problems: how to determine its truth value (literally, metaphors are almost always false) and how to recognize an expression as a metaphor (metaphors have no consistent syntactic form).