...My own view of the structure of metaphor is similar to IA Richards' "interaction view"; that is, in metaphor "we have two thoughts of different things...whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction" (1936:93). This view emphasizes the dynamics inherent in the metaphor, rather than limply comparing...

...Goodman, and Paul Ricoeur. Richard's definition is a good beginning: "In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different...whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction."" The most important element in this definition is its insistence on two active thoughts which remain...

...Richards' definition of metaphor gives the reigning 'interactive' view of it: 'In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction' (p. 93). The most important...

...verification hypothesis. Richards' later statement, according to which it can be maintained that: "... when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different...single word or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of interaction."21 indicates therefore a crucial turn-around in the definition of the metaphor's functional...

...the simplest formulation,' says IA Richards in the passage where the name of the theory originated, 'when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different...word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.'2 The interaction between the two terms juxtaposed in the metaphorical expression is usually...

...transference of things proper to one reality over to another.8 In the words of IA Richards, "when we use metaphor we have two thoughts of different things...word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction."9 For example, Jesus' statement, "You are the light of the world" (Matt. 5:14), evokes...

...Richards denied that metaphor was a change in the use of a single word, but the interaction between "two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word or phrase." [Richards (1936), p. 93] Thus, Richards realized that the scope of a metaphor goes far beyond the level...

...two ideas that any metaphor, at its simplest, gives us" (PR 96). For: "In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different...whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction" (PR, 93). In formalist literary criticism, however, 'vehicle' has been taken to mean the figure, image,...

...kann" (Schöffel 1987, 1 34f).50 Richards1 Metapherndefinition lautet: "In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different...whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction" (1936, 93). Die Formulierung macht klar, daß die Interaktion für Richards letztlich eine mentale...

...literal comparison, or is capable of a literal translation in prose. Richards proposed instead that "when we use a metaphor, we have two thoughts of different...supported by a single word or phrase, whose meaning is the resultant of their interaction." Applying the interaction theory to the metaphor "The poor are...