How like-smile relates to metaphor: an exploration of analytical parameaters

  1. Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Revista:
Lege Artis. Language yesterday, today, tomorrow

ISSN: 2453-8035

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: VIII

Número: 1

Páginas: 110-128

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.34135/LARTIS.23.8.1.08 WoS: WOS:001015456200009 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

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Resumen

Traditional accounts of figurative language consider like-simile and metaphor to be largely equivalent. However,more recent research shows that metaphor expresses a closer association between the two terms of comparison than likesimile.This paper proposes a variety of criteria to understand the similarities and differences between these two figures ofspeech, among them the abstractness of the resemblance relationship, the greater subjectivity of metaphor, and the role ofcomparison in contrast to other factors. This discussion casts light on the metaphor-simile equivalence versus non-equivalence debate.

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Información de financiación

1 Funding. Financial support for this research has been provided by research project PID2020-118349GB-I00 funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Financiadores

  • Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • PID2020-118349GB-I00