Live, Moribund, and Dead Metaphors

dc.contributor.author	Alm-Arvius, Christina
dc.date.accessioned	2006-09-14T16:33:26Z
dc.date.available	2006-09-14T16:33:26Z
dc.date.issued	2006-09-14T16:33:26Z
dc.description.abstract	Prototypical instances of live, moribund and dead metaphors can be distinguished, but the peripheral parts of these categories intersect in an indeterminate way because of contextual modifications or interpretative differences among language users. The basic distinctive criteria are that 1) the target meaning of a live metaphor is transparently connected with the source, while 2) a moribund metaphor is entrenched and lexicalised and need not be understood via its source, although the source and the metaphor are polysemously connected. Finally, 3) a dead metaphor is no longer a metaphor. It has become literalised, since it is not now connected with its historical source content.	eng
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.gup.department	English Department	eng
dc.gup.origin	University of Stockholm	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/690
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	NJES	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol. 5, No. 1	eng
dc.subject	metaphors	eng
dc.title	Live, Moribund, and Dead Metaphors	eng
dc.type	Text	eng
dc.type.svep	article, peer reviewed scientific	eng

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