METAFORE IN SITUACIJE

In his paper the author starts from »situation semantics« and understands meaning as arising from relations between situations, called »constraints«. Human beings are attuned to constraints and exploit them in order to learn from given situations about other situations. A thought expressed by a metaphorical utterance is a thought which would normally correspond to its literal meaning. Metaphor involves a correlation between situations and these correlations are what is sought after when one interprets a certain metaphor.V svojem referatu izhaja avtor iz »situacijske semantike« ter razume pomen kot izhajajoč iz odnosov med situacijami, imenovanimi omejitve. Človeška bitja so prilagojena na omejitve ter jih izrabljajo, da bi se iz danih situacij učila glede drugih situacij. Misel, ki je izražena z metaforično izjavo, je misel, ki bi normalno ustrezala njenemu dobesednemu pomenu. Metafora zadeva korelacijo med situacijami in te korelacije so tisto, kar iščemo, kadar interpretiramo določeno metaforo