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On the Limits of Literalness

Literalness, though necessary, is not the ultimate key to metaphorical meaning ; it is rather a symptom of it. Literal meaning, helped by context, indicates the direction of interpretative computation, but metaphoricity is unfolded at some other level. That is probably the reason why no dictionary of metaphors has been compiled thus far and why it is hard to imagine that a good one could be complied at all. The unfolding of literalness undertaken in this article brought us to the conclusion that the literal and the metaphorical are interconnected and interdependent.

literal meaning, metaphor, linguistic competence, semantic indeterminacy, transaction of meaning, Searle, Davidson, Quine

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