Metafora. Immanentna cecha języka poetyckiego czy uniwersalna etykieta językowa?
A metaphor. An immanent feature of the language of poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at answering the question about the function of metaphors and their formal-semantic shape mainly in poetic and scientific texts. The comparative analysis being carried out proves that metaphorical conjunctions occur in both variants of utterances, but their stylistic function, frequency and degree of conventionalization are of a different character. Innovative and strongly individualized metaphors are characteristic of poetry whereas the language of science employs mainly metaphors considerably standardized, based on system models and structures whose genetic innovativeness we are no longer aware of; rarely innovative metaphors. Therefore it seems unjustifiable to treat metaphors as universal linguistic labels typical of each kind of utterance unless we understand such universality in a slightly narrower sense, i.e., as “useful, usable, suitable, helpful”.

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