Abstract
This article aims to analyze how the metaphor has been discussed and addressed in current textbooks in Portuguese. At first, three textbooks of different compilations were analyzed. As a theoretical contribution for the development of this study we have used the researches of Silva (1997), Baptist (2003, 2004), and Bunzen (2005, 2007, 2014), as well as the –PNLD’s handbooks themselves (2014), which present several discussions on textbooks. For the studies focused on metaphor, we have researched Black (1962, 1966, 1992, 1993), Lakoff and Johnson (2002 [1980]), Sardinha (2007), and Fossile (2011a, 2011b, 2013a, 2014). We would like to emphasize that the results presented hereby are not exhaustive or conclusive. However, with this study we have found the results obtained confirm that the traditional metaphor concept as a feature which is essentially ornamental, rhetorical, and related to figurative language and to the literary field, is still disseminated in current Portuguese language textbooks.
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