Dwudziestowieczne teorie języka wobec problemu metafory
20th Century Linguistic Theories and the Problem of Metaphor

Summary/Abstract: Metaphor has played a significant role as a phenomenon that challenged linguistic theories. Causing interpretational difficulties, it helped develop linguistic methodology. The article shows the main trends of the 20th century linguistic theories: more considerable emphasis on semantics, pragmatics, as well as ways of creating and developing concepts (cognitivism), all that being accompanied by special interest in language use at the level of utterances and research on text cohesion and features of discourse. The development of all those linguistic fields enabled better recognition of the mechanism of metaphor and helped a more adequate description of language in general

• Details
• Contents