Glossary:Entailment

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Entry Entailment
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Description In a metaphor mapping, an entailment constitutes the inferences in the frame or frame in the target domain given the conditions and constraints placed on the frame or frame in the source domain; entailments constitute anything that falls out from an understanding of a metaphor as a whole given the constraints on its frames.
Pertinent form(s) Metaphor
Utility General Theory
Notation
Created by Elise (July 2012)
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Glossary.DescriptionIn a metaphor mapping, an entailment const
In a metaphor mapping, an entailment constitutes the inferences in the frame or frame in the target domain given the conditions and constraints placed on the frame or frame in the source domain; entailments constitute anything that falls out from an understanding of a metaphor as a whole given the constraints on its frames.
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