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Michèle Prandi, « La métaphore : de la définition à la typologie », Langue française, ID : 10.3406/lfr.2002.6450
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Michèle Prandi : Metaphor: from definition to typology The main point of this paper is that no consistent definition of metaphor can be at once general and adequate. If a definition is so broad as to include the whole set of metaphors, it simply circumscribes from outside a layered category without saying anything about the qualifying properties of the different kinds it includes. The alternative proposed is to combine a definition broad enough to include any kind of metaphor with a fine-grained typology isolating the main parameters whose variation defines the different kinds of metaphor. At this point, the relevant question is not the Socratic one - What is metaphor - but a question dealing with typicality - namely, What kind of metaphor valorizes at its best the potential of the figure?