Metaphor and minimalism |
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Authors: | Josef Stern |
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Institution: | (1) The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper argues first that, contrary to what one would expect, metaphorical interpretations of utterances pass two of Cappelan
and Lepore’s Minimalist tests for semantic context-sensitivity. I then propose how, in light of that result, one might analyze
metaphors on the model of indexicals and demonstratives, expressions that (even) Minimalists agree are semantically context-dependent.
This analysis builds on David Kaplan’s semantics for demonstratives and refines an earlier proposal in (Stern, Metaphor in
context, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000). In the course of this argument, I also discuss some new examples of linguistic phenomena that motivate a semantic structure
underlying metaphorical interpretation, phenomena I argue that neither Minimalists nor Contextualists can explain. |
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