RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 An alternative to George Lakoff & Mark Turner's approach to poetic metaphors: the projection of contexts A1 Pérez Bernal, María Dolores A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid K1 Filología Inglesa AB The wide variety of images and emotions evoked by poetic language are lost in the mappings which Lakoff & Turner use to interpret poetic metaphors. In contrast, I propose a reinterpretation of Richards’ interactive theory based on the contextual character of meaning and the preeminence of the metaphorical expressions over metaphors. The meaning of words rises from the usual syntagmatic connections and by means of metaphorical expressions the source domain is projected onto the target domain. This approach does not diminish the variety and vividness of metaphorical expressions and serves to explain connotation and the difficulty of translating metaphors from one language into another. SN 0210-9689 YR 2012 FD 2012 LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17245 UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17245 LA spa NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2012, N.33, pags.235-251 DS UVaDOC RD 23-abr-2024