Mixing Metaphors

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1999-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/cs/9904004v1

Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Metaphor, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognition, pages 11-16, Edinburgh

Computer Science

Computation and Language

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Mixed metaphors have been neglected in recent metaphor research. This paper suggests that such neglect is short-sighted. Though mixing is a more complex phenomenon than straight metaphors, the same kinds of reasoning and knowledge structures are required. This paper provides an analysis of both parallel and serial mixed metaphors within the framework of an AI system which is already capable of reasoning about straight metaphorical manifestations and argues that the processes underlying mixing are central to metaphorical meaning. Therefore, any theory of metaphors must be able to account for mixing.

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