Implicit and Imaginative Metaphor: Competing Accounts and al-Sakkaki’s Definitions
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- What is the main theoretical dispute about “the claws of death”?
- Why are the “claws” not simply treated as reinforcement?
- How can an unnamed borrowed image be suggested in the al-Kashshāf account?
- What evokes the predator image in “a brave man preys upon his peers”?
- Which element is not overtly named in “the claws of death”?
- What experience does “ṣaḥā” evoke in the example about Salmā?
- What does the travel imagery of the mounts of youth express?
- What best distinguishes imaginative from realizable features?
- If an imagined picture communicates a real quality, what follows?
- Why distinguish overt wording from the mentally recovered picture?
- How are lexical assignment and actual use different?
- Why does al-Sakkākī exclude interpretive adjustment from literal use?
- How is “asad” used when referring to an actual lion?
- Why does calling a brave man “asad” raise interpretive assignment?
- What does “bi-l-taḥqīq” accomplish in the definition of metaphor?
- How should contradictions between the two definitions be avoided?
- Why specify the “kind of literal meaning”?
- What does “in the convention of the discourse” establish?
- What is the role of “yakhṭub” in “I saw a lion preaching”?
- Which statement correctly distinguishes a clue from lexical assignment?
- What must be checked when comparing “actually” and “without interpretation”?
- How should literal use be judged for a term with an established technical religious meaning?
- What is the structural contrast between the two examples?
- What is a mistaken requirement when interpreting “the mounts of youth”?
- Which summary best captures the relation between assignment and interpretation?
- What should be considered before calling a restriction redundant?
- What is the most rigorous order of analysis in this lesson?
- In “the claws of death,” the word claws can signal an unstated comparison source.
- Both reinforcement and implicit metaphor always start with an explicitly stated source noun.
- For al-Sakkākī, the assignment/interpretation issue can involve claimed membership in a class.
- The phrase “in actuality” aims to erase the difference between figurative inclusion and actual reference.
- The convention of discourse identifies which established usage governs interpretation.
- Every contextual clue immediately establishes a permanent new dictionary sense.