Near kināyah requires relatively few inferential steps from the expressed image to the intended quality; remote kināyah involves a longer chain.
A long sword-strap suggesting height is comparatively direct. “Much ash” suggesting hospitality involves several habitual associations.
The distinction is not about the number of words in the phrase. It concerns the length of the inferential path linking the surface meaning to the intended quality.
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Representative and Implicit Metaphor, Imaginative Attribution and Kināyah
Near kināyah requires relatively few inferential steps from the expressed image to the intended quality; remote kināyah involves a longer chain.
A long sword-strap suggesting height is comparatively direct. “Much ash” suggesting hospitality involves several habitual associations.
The distinction is not about the number of words in the phrase. It concerns the length of the inferential path linking the surface meaning to the intended quality.