# What 'Hillary' should have said: Indeterminacy of metaphor integration

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The piece explains Hillary Clinton's joke as an underspecified analogy whose possible mappings hardened during subsequent public interpretation.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 29 January 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, analogy, political-discourse, conceptual-framing.

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