# Rejection of metaphor

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-06-17-rejection-of-metaphor

The piece argues that rejecting an explicit metaphor does not remove the conceptual integration embedded in ordinary narrative description.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 June 2007

## Where it lives

- [Read it on Hermeneutic Heretic (web.archive.org)](https://web.archive.org/web/https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/17/rejection-of-metaphor/)

## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 17 June 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: metaphor, conceptual-blending, narrative, discourse-analysis.

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