Metaphor, Semantic Preferences and Context-Sensitivity
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چکیده
In this chapter, the main reference point in Yorick Wilks’s work is Wilks (1978). This extends his preferencebased semantics (Wilks, 1975) to handling metaphor. Wilks (1978) covers a number of issues that deserve fresh comment and that are central to problems about metaphor that are still unresolved—theoretically, let alone computationally. Also, the legacy of the 1978 work stretched through to, and beyond, the work of Fass (1997) on an approach to metaphor and metonymy based on “Collative Semantics.” This was a development from Wilks’s Preference Semantics. Fass’s system meta5 implemented an approach to metaphor (and metonymy) derived from Wilks (1978). Wilks himself also continued work on metaphor in conjunction with various researchers, including myself (see, e.g., Ballim, Wilks & Barnden, 1990, 1991; Fass & Wilks, 1983; Wilks, Barnden, & Wang, 1991, 1996).
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