Genericity and Metaphoricity Both Involve Sense Modulation
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I wish to explore the link between interpretation ofmetaphors and generics in natural language, in support of a claim that the mechanisms and processes of interpretation for metaphors and generics are closely related through word sense modulation. Both tropes have curious truth conditions. In a strict literal sense (4.1), (4.2), (4.3), and (4.4) are false.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011