Abstract
I have thrown into one melting pot informational atomism, the causal theory of reference, denotational semantics, and the theory of cognitive embodiment, but I hope that instead of getting a scary monster I have told you a story about the relationship between language and conceptual structure that may at least be partly true. The main objective of this book was to argue that there is a lot more literalness in language than has traditionally been supposed. I have argued this on the example of synaesthetic and double-function adjectives, and I hope to have eliminated them from the class of metaphors. In the course of this book I have also mentioned many other examples, but I am not as much committed to my treatment of them as I am to my treatment of synaesthetic and double-function adjectives.