Objects of metaphor - Guttenplan, Samuel D. (Clarendon Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-299) and index
Clearing a space -- Object and word -- The semantic descent account -- Embellishment -- Competitors -- Epilogue : language and thought
Guttenplan puts forward a philosophical account of metaphor much different from those used currently. Powerful and flexible enough to cope with the syntactic complexity typical of genuine metaphor, he offers novel conceptions of the relationship between simile and metaphor and the notion of dead metaphor