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MÁCHA, Jakub. Metaphor in the Twilight Area between Philosophy and Linguistics. In Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxell: Peter Lang, 2011, p. 159-169, 10 pp. Lodz Studies in Language - Volume 21. ISBN 978-3-631-60648-3.

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Original name	Metaphor in the Twilight Area between Philosophy and Linguistics
Name in Czech	Metafora na pomezí filosofie a lingvistiky
Authors	MÁCHA, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition	Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxell, Turning Points in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, p. 159-169, 10 pp. Lodz Studies in Language - Volume 21, 2011.
Publisher	Peter Lang

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study	60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher	Germany
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form	printed version "print"
WWW	PDF
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14210/11:00051205
Organization unit	Faculty of Arts
ISBN	978-3-631-60648-3
Keywords in English	metaphor; metaphorical meaning; secondary meaning; literal meaning; internal relation; Donald Davidson; Virginia Woolf; Wystan Hugh Auden;Thomas Stearns Eliot; William Shakespeare
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Tags	International impact, Reviewed
Changed by	Changed by: Ing. Mgr. Zdeňka Jastrzembská, Ph.D., učo 11408. Changed: 28/1/2013 16:26.

Abstract
This paper investigates the issue whether metaphors have a metaphorical or secondary meaning and how this question is related to the borderline between philosophy and linguistics. On examples by V. Woolf and H. W. Auden, it will be shown that metaphor accomplishes something more than its literal meaning expresses and this “more” cannot be captured by any secondary meaning. What is essential in the metaphor is not a secondary meaning but an internal relation between a metaphorical proposition and a description of its effects. In order to understand metaphors, we have to share an ability to construe metaphorical meanings at once. The aim of this ability is to uncover an internal relation, which lies behind a particular metaphor.

Abstract

This paper investigates the issue whether metaphors have a metaphorical or secondary meaning and how this question is related to the borderline between philosophy and linguistics. On examples by V. Woolf and H. W. Auden, it will be shown that metaphor accomplishes something more than its literal meaning expresses and this “more” cannot be captured by any secondary meaning. What is essential in the metaphor is not a secondary meaning but an internal relation between a metaphorical proposition and a description of its effects. In order to understand metaphors, we have to share an ability to construe metaphorical meanings at once. The aim of this ability is to uncover an internal relation, which lies behind a particular metaphor.