“The goal of this paper is to address and account for a particular piece of datum that presents problems for current theories both of performative utterances and of metaphor: the metaphorical I do as it is used in song lyrics. This account considers, in particular, proposed constraints on propositionality of metaphors and performatives both.”
2015 | South Hadley, MA and Amherst, MA | research into semantics and pragmatics
Svetlana Zwetkof 