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A Davidsonian Response to the Dead Metaphor Problem
In his article, "What Metaphors Mean," Donald Davidson presented his own unique theory of metaphor. While this theory has proved to be influential, there seems to be one problem which a Davidsonian theory cannot account for: the dead metaphor problem. Due to certain aspects of Davidson's theory of …
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… refers to the use of a conventionalised non-literal meaning of a lexical item in a multi-word phrase. For example, the word ‘attack’ in the phrase ‘attack one’s idea’, which should be interpreted as ‘to criticise somebody or something severely’, clearly departs from the literal meaning …