Lexical Meanings with Respect to Metaphor and Syncategorematic Modifiers = Lexical Meanings with Respect to Metaphor and Syncategorematic Modifiers

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Lee, Heechul. 2000. Lexical Meanings with Respect to Metaphor and Syncategorematic Modifiers. Linguistics 8-2, 25-41. One of the metaphorical mappings Lakoff and Johnson (1980) consider is Theories are Buildings. This paper will construct detailed mappings that characterize this metaphor. It is necessary to actually get our hands dirty and study one metaphor in detail to really understand the theory. The paper will set up mappings for this analysis in a particular and explicit way, building upon the analyses presented in Lakoff and Johnson (1980) for the metaphor of Love is a journey. It has frequently been discussed (e.g., Austin 1964) that a word like imitation does not semantically modify a noun in the standard `set intersection` way. For example, something correctly described as imitation coffee looks and tastes like coffee; but, whatever it is, it is not made of coffee beans. (Fillmore 1982: 133) The second half of this paper will discuss the so-called syncategorematic terms like imitation, which do not work like other noun modifiers. (Chonbuk National University)