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Metaphor pervades natural language the way blood pervades the human body. A cut in almost any part of a living body reveals the blood flowing through it; analysis of almost any part of a body of natural language reveals metaphor vivifying it. In trying to understand the structure and function of blood we do not limit our scrutiny to just a droplet under a microscope; we try to understand the way blood courses through the body as a whole. Most analyses of metaphor are limited to microscopic examination of isolated metaphors; they do not offer a theoretical basis for studying the role of metaphor in a text as a whole.
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Saha, P.K. (1988). Metaphorical Style as Message. In: Helman, D.H. (eds) Analogical Reasoning. Synthese Library, vol 197. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7811-0_3
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