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LOGIC OF METAPHOR
Editorial KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
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- Publisher KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
- ISBN13 9780792370048
- ISBN10 079237004X
- Type Book
LOGIC OF METAPHOR
Editorial KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
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The Logic of Metaphors uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. It gives logically precise and practically useful syntactic and semantic rules for generating and interpreting metaphors. These rules are implemented in a working computer program. The book treats the lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It gives rules for finding analogies in such networks. It shows how to analyse texts containing metaphors both syntactically and semantically and how to use structural similarities between parts of possible worlds to provide truth-conditions for metaphors. Meanings for metaphors are linked to the modal logics of identity and indiscernibility. The book shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors and how to handle novel metaphorical word-senses. Indispensable reading for philosophers, logicians, linguists and computer scientists.- Publisher KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHER
- ISBN13 9780792370048
- ISBN10 079237004X
- Type Book