“From three dimensions to five steps: The value of deliberate metaphor” (2025), by Gerard J. Steen. Psychology research paper. Original abstract below, unchanged. No free PDF was found.

From three dimensions to five steps: The value of deliberate metaphor

Gerard J. Steen · July 23, 2025 · Psychology

Abstract

Recent interest in the nature of deliberate metaphor has demonstrated the need for a threedimensional model of metaphor. Metaphor is not just a matter of language and thought, but also of communication. How can this starting point be connected with a discourse-psychological framework for metaphor in which it is assumed that people have to represent metaphor as part of a number of complementary mental models for discourse? And how can this discourseanalytical approach be formalized in the five-step method for metaphor analysis going from language to thought: Can this method be adjusted to cater to the formal analysis of metaphor in communication as well, so that a distinction can be made between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor in the five-step method? These are the questions addressed in this article.

Source page DOI: 10.17185/duepublico/83794