| 词汇 | example_english_metaphorical-meaning |
| 释义 | metaphorical meaningcollocation in Englishmeanings of metaphoricaland meaningThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with meaning. metaphorical adjective uk /ˌmet.əˈfɒr.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌmet̬.əˈfɔːr.ɪ.kəl/ Metaphorical language ... See more at metaphorical meaning noun uk /ˈmiː.nɪŋ/ us /ˈmiː.nɪŋ/ The meaning of something is what it expresses ... See more at meaning Examples of metaphorical meaningThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Of course there is no guarantee that a person would grasp the metaphoricalmeaning of a word by recognizing its literal basis. Accordingly, he shows how semantic mechanisms previously employed for literal meaning can be extended to account for metaphoricalmeaning. The story context aided the young child to grasp the metaphoricalmeaning. The effort to clarify the metaphoricalmeaning of 'lavador' has occupied numerous scholars. Thus, the familiarity of the source domain and the metaphorical mapping might have also aided children in extracting the metaphoricalmeaning, leading to an earlier onset of metaphor comprehension. Literal meaning differs from metaphoricalmeaning only in recruiting the default thematic dimension associated with a particular word. Children would either conflate literal and metaphoricalmeaning initially, gradually separating the two, or they would focus on the literal meaning initially, gradually integrating the metaphorical. The b-sentences are possible only given an unusual context that establishes appropriate metaphoricalmeaning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The two were literal synonyms for the sower, but their metaphoricalmeaning was more complex. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The phrase has also taken on the metaphoricalmeaning of the barrier which the relatively limited armed forces of a country present to potential attackers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. One problem is that pragmatic accounts assume that it is possible to adjudicate between literal and metaphorical meanings. How should different connotations of the same word or metaphorical meanings be assessed? Strohm advised, however, that caution is necessary when attaching metaphorical meanings to works: doing so means having to account for a metaphor's relationship to the whole of a composition. If metaphorical meanings were ignored then people should reject them at the same speed they do for the scrambled metaphors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Her songs are generally not complicated yet full of metaphorical meanings, with lots of the seventh and diminished chords. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. More importance is attached to the ethics and metaphorical meanings derived from them. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Note that this method does not deal with an author's possible intention to express metaphorical meanings, and does not identify metaphorical utterances and conventional linguistic metaphors. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The main topic discussed was the fact that there can be different metaphorical meanings of the song, as the word like can be taken in separate contexts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gibbs found that in general, people understand not only the metaphorical meanings of the statements, but that they also can have different pragmatic implications for different contexts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of metaphorical Go to the definition of meaning See other collocations with meaning |
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