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Direct linkMcGlone, Matthew S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
To its credit, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) has drawn significant attention to the question of what figurative language can tell us about human concepts. However, the answers CMT theorists have offered are typically unsubstantiated by the empirical evidence, and occasionally unfalsifiable. This reply to Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.'s positive…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Semantics, Alternative Assessment
