Week 11

Question 1

What is literal meaning?

Answer 1

the meaning of words and sentences that is independent of the context - analyzable in terms of truth conditions and compositional

Question 2

Give an example of non-compositional meaning

Answer 2

idioms - expression has to be learned as a whole unit (idioms have anomalous literal meaning)

Question 3

What did Lakoff and Johnson say?

Answer 3

metaphor is a mental operation that enables speakers to structure and construe abstract areas of knowledge and experience in more concrete experiential terms

Question 4

Which 2 domains do metaphors involve?

Answer 4

source domain and target domain

Question 5

Which domain is more concrete?

Answer 5

source domain is concrete, target domain is more abstract

Question 6

What is the important thing about domains?

Answer 6

mapping between source and target domain is partial, not all aspect of source domain are mapped onto target domain