“Metaphors are No Arguments, My Pretty Maiden” The Pragma-Dialectical Reconstruction of Figurative

Authors
Publication date 2018
Host editors
  • S. Oswald
  • D. Maillat
Book title Argumentation and Inference
Book subtitle Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
ISBN
  • 9781848902848
Series Studies in logic
Event 2nd European Conference on Argumentation
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 327-338
Number of pages 9
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract While in literal analogies the concrete characteristics of two items from the same domain are compared, in figurative analogies a comparison is made between the relations of elements in one domain mentioned in the standpoint and the relation between two elements in a completely different domain mentioned in the argument. Figurative analogy should not be seen as analogy argumentation but as a way of expressing a different type of argument scheme. 
Document type Chapter
Language English
Other links https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/logic/sla/?00011
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