The Metaphorical Competence of People with Learning Difficulties

This short essay attempts to approach metaphor as a multidisciplinary subject across different school. Although the issue is wide-ranging and complex, the growing philosophical significance of metaphor parallels its increasing in educational and psychological significance. This essay provides the groundwork, context and locus for the following discussion, seeking to elucidate and criticize various different views on metaphor, and attempting to explore and develop the nature of metaphor. Metaphor understood as a cognitive event opens up a new philosophical paradigm in the study of language. Metaphor is then irreducible and, to an extent, inexplicable. This essay also suggest the role of metaphor. Finally, it is tried to argue that people with learning difficulties also have the metaphorical competence.