Objects of Metaphor phần 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'objects of metaphor phần 7', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Embellishment 181 interplay between the two proto-predicates that saves 4 from the blank unintelligibility of 2 . In 4 we have a case of mixed metaphor that works or if you find my example somewhat forced is at least less jarring than 2 . The conventional advice to avoid mixed metaphor was surely framed with examples like 2 in view and on the semantic descent account the reason for this is clear to mix metaphors in this way is to make what you write uninterpretable or near enough. With examples like 4 the aptness of the advice is less clear cut. Strictly speaking semantic descent in 4 leads to the same kind of interpretative cul-de-sac as 2 but there is a difference the different objects got by descent could be used as qualifiers of each other. When this happens one might find that the mixed metaphor works perfectly well. Moreover while this possibility helps us understand the success or failure of mixed metaphors it has a much wider application. For it can happen that two different words or phrases might lead by semantic descent not to two different objects as in mixed metaphor but to the same one. This possibility can give us insight into the ways metaphors become extended over larger stretches of discourse than individual sentences. To get an idea of what I mean consider one of the examples from section 5 When questioned he offered his usual soap-bubble reason for what he had noted the phrase soap-bubble reason bears the burden of metaphor in 5 and this phrase functions by calling on an object a soap-bubble which then serves as an adjectival qualifier of reason . Imagine this sentence followed by 6 But this was pricked by the detective asking about the telephone call to the bank manager and it burst completely when the bank official denied that any such call took place. This continuation shows how a metaphor can reverberate in what one could call grandly in this case the larger discourse. Whilst neither particularly vivid nor profound the metaphor .

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