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D. Gentner, Brian Falkenhainer, -Ken Forbus
1987
1987
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Gentner, D., Falkenhainer, B., & Forbus, -K. (1987). Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI.
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Gentner, D., Brian Falkenhainer, and -Ken Forbus. “Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI” (1987).
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Gentner, D., et al. Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI. 1987.
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@article{d1987a,
title = {Psycftol€y Depafirnent METAPHOR: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLYI},
year = {1987},
author = {Gentner, D. and Falkenhainer, Brian and Forbus, -Ken}
}
Abstract
Metaphor is a pervasive'and important phenomenon, both'in literature and in ordinary language. lt is also an immensely variable phenomenon. The t'erm 'metapho/ is.often used lo refer lo nonliteral comparisons that are novel and vivid and that convey ideas that might otheruise be difficuh lo express (Ortony, 1975). But the term has also been used to refer td systems of extended meanings that are so familiar as to be almost invisible, such as the spatial metaphors 'soaring spirits'or :talling GNP' (Lakofl & Johnson, 1979; Nagy, 19?4). Even if we restrict ouselves to literary'metaphors, there is still an enonnous range"of metaphor types, as shdwn in the following list:
