Metaphoring as speech act: some happiness conditions for implicit similes and simple metaphors
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Understanding and appreciating metaphors
TL;DR: It is argued that metaphors correlate two systems of concepts from different domains, and the best metaphors involve two diverse domains (more distance between domains making for better metaphors) and close correspondence between the terms within those domains.
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When Is Metaphor? The Idea of Understanding in Theories of Metaphor
TL;DR: The authors argue that theories of metaphor differ precisely because they emphasize different temporal stages in the process of understanding metaphorical expressions, and suggest that most theories draw unjustified conclusions about the entire time-course of metaphor understanding because of the particular temporal stage of understanding that each attempt to describe.
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Bibliography of Contextual (Systemic and Empirical) Approaches in the Study of Literature and Culture
TL;DR: Part of the American Studies Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Education Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies, Reading and Language Commons, Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Television Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons.
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How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
Ann S. Ferebee,Noam Chomsky +1 more
TL;DR: Methodological preliminaries of generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence; theory of performance; organization of a generative grammar; justification of grammar; descriptive and explanatory theories; evaluation procedures; linguistic theory and language learning.
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
TL;DR: Generative grammars as theories of linguistic competence as discussed by the authors have been used as a theory of performance for language learning. But they have not yet been applied to the problem of language modeling.