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10. Which are the main components of Searle's metaphor theory?

11. Which metaphor theories is Searle attacking?

12. Is there difference between literary and non-literary meaning according to Searle? Motivate your answer.

13. Which are the decision steps in metaphor understanding described by Searle?
Give an example of a metaphor and show how Searle's principles can be applied to it.

14. How is speaker's meaning related to metaphor meaning?

15. Which are the main relations between the literal predicate (P)
and the metaphor predicate (R)?

16. What is the difference between metaphor and irony, metaphor and indirect speech act?

17. Which are the influencing and the determined parameters in Allwood's activity theory?

18. What is your main impression of the application of Grice's theory on empirical
data within discourse anaysis?

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