%0 Journal Article %T Significado extendido de la met¨˘fora: aproximaci¨®n e interpretaciones en fragmentos discursivos sobre ¨¦xito y fracaso en adultos mayores de Colima, M¨¦xico %A P¨¦rez Barajas %A Alan Emmanuel %J Relaciones (Zamora) %D 2011 %I Colegio de Michoacan %X from the focus of sociocultural discourse that emerged from narrative interviews, this text explores the role of metaphor as an element of micro-signification in verbalized discursive series by older adults on success and failure. the study shows how metaphor, as a linguistic-discursive element, licenses and aids in configuring semantic-cognitive analyses of discourse based on macro-propositions that form global meanings or semantic macrostructures that commonly that are rarely considered primordial elements. %K discourse %K metaphor %K sociocultural focus of linguistics %K semantic macro-structure or global meaning %K linguistic-discursive elements %K success and failure %K older adults. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0185-39292011000400005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en