Significado extendido de la metáfora: aproximación e interpretaciones en fragmentos discursivos sobre éxito y fracaso en adultos mayores de Colima, México

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.