METAFORA A METONYMIA: EMPIRICKÁ PODOBNOSŤ A LOGICKÁ SÚVISLOSŤ
A METAPHORE AND A METONYMY: EMPIRICAL SIMILARITY AND LOGICAL CONNECTION

Summary/Abstract: In the presented study we are following recent discussion about similarity as a foundation of a metaphor. We deal with the traditional dichotomy between a metaphor and a metonymy as well as with the characteristics understood to determine these so-called tropes (similarity, logical connection). We are confronting the most important (traditional as well as modern) theoretical conclusions about the similarity as a distinctive characteristics for the difference between a metaphor and a metonymy with empirical findings about the understanding of similarity. Even the logical connection between concepts in one’s mind seems to function as one form of empiric similarity. Regarding the contemporary variability of the very term “metaphor” (attributive metaphor, analogy, conceptual metaphor...), we put forward the question, what kind of similarity is crucial for the definition of a metaphor.

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