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The phrasal implicature theory of metaphors and slurs
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dc.contributor.advisor | Ball, Derek Nelson | |
dc.contributor.author | Yavuz, Alper | |
dc.coverage.spatial | 224 p. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-24T09:40:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-24T09:40:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-28 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/13189 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis develops a pragmatic theory of metaphors and slurs. In the pragmatic literature, theorists mostly hold the view that the framework developed by Grice is only applicable to the sentence-level pragmatic phenomena, whereas the subsentential pragmatic phenomena require a different approach. In this thesis, I argue against this view and claim that the Gricean framework, after some plausible revisions, can explain subsentential pragmatic phenomena, such as metaphors and slurs. In the first chapter, I introduce three basic theses I will defend and give an outline of the argument I will develop. The second chapter discusses three claims on metaphor that are widely discussed in the literature. There I state my aim to present a theory of metaphor which can accommodate these three claims. Chapter 3 introduces the notion of "phrasal implicature", which will be used to explain phrase-level pragmatic phenomena with a Gricean approach. In Chapter 4, I present my theory of metaphor, which I call "phrasal implicature theory of metaphor" and discuss certain aspects of the theory. The notion of phrasal implicature enables a new conception of what-is-said and a different approach to the semantics-pragmatics distinction. Chapter 5 looks into these issues. In Chapter 6, I compare my theory of metaphor with three other theories. Finally, in Chapter 7, I develop a phrasal implicature theory of slurs, which I argue outperforms its rivals in explaining various uses of slurs. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Metaphors | en_US |
dc.subject | Slurs | en_US |
dc.subject | Phrasal implicatures | en_US |
dc.subject | What-is-said | en_US |
dc.subject | Semantics-pragmatics distinction | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | P99.4M48Y2 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Metaphor | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Invective | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Pragmatics | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Semantics | en |
dc.title | The phrasal implicature theory of metaphors and slurs | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
dc.publisher.department | University of St Andrews. Arché Philosophical Research Centre for Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology | en_US |
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