Editors’ Introduction
Abstract
Since the beginning of philosophical thought to the present day, scholars have engaged in discourse on metaphor from multiple theoretical standpoints, encompassing rhetoric, linguistics, cognitive science, aesthetics, and hermeneutic phenomenology. This has led to its establishment as a quintessential feature of language — a vibrant interpreter that has traversed the course of history while retaining its ‘youth’...
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