Teun Van Dijk. Formal semantics of metaphorical discourse. Poetics, 4:173 -- 195, 1975.

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A Logical Approach to the Analysis of Metaphors - D'Hanis (2002)   (5 citations)  (Correct)

....I present in this paper is an adaptive logic. Adaptive logics are extremely suited to handle the specific type of dynamics that occur in the analysis of metaphors. There are other examples of logical approaches to metaphors such as the systems presented by Van Dijk, Guenthner and Bergmann in [12], 13] and [7] Their systems, however, cannot account for the specific dynamics involved in a metaphorical transfer such as non monotonicity. The question these authors ask themselves is how metaphors expressions that seem false at first sight can get a truth value. They develop a special ....

Teun Van Dijk. Formal semantics of metaphorical discourse. Poetics, 4:173 -- 195, 1975.

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