A journal article titled "Understanding Metaphor: A Relational Frame Perspective" by Ian Stewart and Dermot Barnes-Holmes, discussing an RFT-based approach to metaphor in The Behavior Analyst, Fall 2001 issue.

Understanding Metaphor: A Relational Frame Perspective | 1 BCBA CEU

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Ian Stewart & Dermot Barnes-Holmes

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Read the following article (reading time: 42 min) and pass an 8-question quiz on it:

Stewart, I. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2001). Understanding metaphor: A relational frame perspective. The Behavior Analyst, 24 (2), 191-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392030

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To earn credit, you will be required to read the article and pass a 8-question quiz about it. You can retake the quiz as many times as needed, but you will not receive exactly the same questions each time.

Abstract

The current article presents a basic functional-analytic interpretation of metaphor. This work involves an extension of Skinner’s (1957) interpretation of metaphor using relational frame theory (RFT). A basic RFT interpretation of a particular metaphor is outlined, according to which the metaphor acquires its psychological effects when formal stimulus dimensions are contacted via the derivation of arbitrary stimulus relations. This interpretation sees the metaphor as involving four elements: (a) establishing two separate equivalence relations, (b) deriving an equivalence relation between these relations, (c) discriminating a formal relation via this equivalence-equivalence relation, and (d) a transformation of functions on the basis of the formal relation discriminated in the third element. In the second half of the paper, a number of important issues with regard to the RFT interpretation of metaphor are addressed.

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Type of CEU	General
Format	Article Quiz
Total CEUs	1
Reading Time	42 minutes

Publication Date	Jun 17, 2026

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this was a complicated one! it was worth patiently figuring out, though

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