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loose use: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

the use of an expression to convey something that the literal concept only approximates, treated in relevance theory as continuous with metaphor.

In pragmatics, loose use refers to the use of an expression to convey something that the literal concept only approximates, treated in relevance theory as continuous with metaphor. This meaning comes from Sperber (1986) in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.[1]

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expression4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs limit3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs metaphor3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (1986). IX: Loose Talk. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 86(1), 153-172. https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/86.1.153

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