"utterances are real pieces of speech. By filtering out certain types of (especially phonetic) information we can get to abstract grammat- ical elements, sentences. By going on to filter out certain types of gram- matical information, we can get to propositions, which are descriptions of states of af"
"literal language theory:metaphors and other non-literal uses of language require a different processing strategy than literal language"
"Lakoff (1987): the literal language theory is mistaken in viewing metaphor as something extra to, and different from, ordinary literal language"