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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright 2014 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- ISSN
- 1877-3095
- eISSN
- 1877-3109
- DOI
- 10.1163/18773109-00601005
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This paper examines how categorization accounts handle cases of novel metaphor which involve “category-crossing” (e.g. “Her mind is a jungle”, “His life was a skiff with no oar”). I provide a stringent characterization of the cases I have in mind and show that the relevance-theoretic account of metaphor (Carston, 2002; Sperber and Wilson, 2008) as well as other central categorization accounts (Glucksberg, 2001; Recanati, 2004) lack the resources to explain such cases. An adequate categorization account, I argue, cannot avoid incorporating the central element of rival, comparison-based, views: analogy. I show how this might be done within a categorization framework.
Journal
International Review of Pragmatics – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2014
Keywords: metaphor; analogy; Relevance Theory; categorization; category mistakes