Metaphor ReexaminedBreaking away from the traditional "neo Aristotelian" view of metaphor, Liselotte Gumpel's ambitious study offers a new, "non Aristotelian" approach based on the phenomenological semantics of Roman Ingarden and the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author seeks to grasp the meaning of metaphor through an exhaustive exploration of meaning in language, from its acquisition by young speakers to its repeated origination in sound when spoken and in the