Nomes próprios como nomes de classes em textos ficcionais (original) (raw)

In this work, I deal with the occurrence of proper names in metaphorical propositions or, in a more specific way, I deal with the occurrence of them as expressions of source domains in such propositions. Considering examples extracted from major works of universal literature (Dom Casmurro, Faust and The Magic Mountain), I look for the establishment of clear criteria of distinction between the occurrence of proper names in analogical metaphors and in categorical metaphors (which produce class-inclusions). I assume that this distinction can be very helpful for the elucidation of the peculiar way by which literary metaphors (and not exclusively philosophical and scientific ones) could have ontological commitments. If I am not mistaken in making this claim, its negligence by the Conceptual Metaphor Theory – developed by George Lakoff and his partners in the last decades – appears as one of the reasons for the failure of this theory with regard to the study of certain distinctive and idiosyncratic metaphorical patterns that we find in literary texts.

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