FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
5TH GROUP :
1. FA D H I L A A S H A D I
2. H A N A P U T R I A N I
3. S I T I R A H M A YA N T
4. Z H E L D Y O C TA V I A
WHAT IS IT??
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Metaphors tend to provoke thought and feeling to a greater extent than more literal descriptions do.
Examples :
“My mother’s face curdled” [Metaphor (kiasan)]
Curdled : signalled distaste and trepidation.
Curdled : The writers express and the readers should work out their meaning; they should be able to imagine.
“My mother grimaced” [Literal (harfiah/nyata)]
“Like a picture, a metaphor displays rather than describes it’s content.”Stern literal meanings.
Abstracted from contexts of use, they are suitable for re-use in many different situations, rather than only in re-enactments of the original contexts in which we met them. If the only word meanings used in the explicature are literal meanings, then we have a literal interpretation. 5.1 LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE USAGE
• The traditional term figures of speech covers various kinds of figurative – as distinct from literal – uses of language
Grant and Bauer (2004:51) present a simple diagnostic test: constructions ‘compositionally involving an untruth which can be reinterpreted pragmatically to understand the intended truth …’ are figurative usages.
As always when interpreting what people say or write, one chooses among possibilities with the aim of finding a contextually appropriate reading.
I define a figurative interpretation as an explicature (a
Stage 2 interpretation) that involves treating one or more words as if they had meanings different from their literal ones The reason why a particular figurative interpretation is chosen as better than other interpretations that the listener or reader can think of may be that a literal interpretation is somehow deviant (untrue, too obvious, or empty of content, for instance);
Figures of speech should also be distinguished from idioms figures of speech can be interpreted according to
LANGUAGE
5TH GROUP :
1. FA D H I L A A S H A D I
2. H A N A P U T R I A N I
3. S I T I R A H M A YA N T
4. Z H E L D Y O C TA V I A
WHAT IS IT??
•
Metaphors tend to provoke thought and feeling to a greater extent than more literal descriptions do.
Examples :
“My mother’s face curdled” [Metaphor (kiasan)]
Curdled : signalled distaste and trepidation.
Curdled : The writers express and the readers should work out their meaning; they should be able to imagine.
“My mother grimaced” [Literal (harfiah/nyata)]
“Like a picture, a metaphor displays rather than describes it’s content.”Stern literal meanings.
Abstracted from contexts of use, they are suitable for re-use in many different situations, rather than only in re-enactments of the original contexts in which we met them. If the only word meanings used in the explicature are literal meanings, then we have a literal interpretation. 5.1 LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE USAGE
• The traditional term figures of speech covers various kinds of figurative – as distinct from literal – uses of language
Grant and Bauer (2004:51) present a simple diagnostic test: constructions ‘compositionally involving an untruth which can be reinterpreted pragmatically to understand the intended truth …’ are figurative usages.
As always when interpreting what people say or write, one chooses among possibilities with the aim of finding a contextually appropriate reading.
I define a figurative interpretation as an explicature (a
Stage 2 interpretation) that involves treating one or more words as if they had meanings different from their literal ones The reason why a particular figurative interpretation is chosen as better than other interpretations that the listener or reader can think of may be that a literal interpretation is somehow deviant (untrue, too obvious, or empty of content, for instance);
Figures of speech should also be distinguished from idioms figures of speech can be interpreted according to