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This paper aims to suggest a unified model of metaphor interpretation that reconciles two competing models, conceptual metaphor model and attributive categorization model. There has been much debate about which model offers the most veridical account of how people interpret metaphors. But there is the possibility of reconciling two rival models. Proponents of conceptual metaphor and attributive categorization models of metaphor have differently sampled metaphors. Proponents of conceptual metaphor model have chosen relational and double metaphors, but proponents of attributive categorization model have chosen double and attributional metaphors. Also proponents of conceptual metaphor model have chosen novel and conventional metaphors, but proponents of attributive categorization model have chosen conventional and dead metaphors. I here offer a unified model of metaphor interpretation (31). In model (31) there are three types of metaphor. Type 1 metaphors are interpreted in a comparison mode, type 2 metaphors are interpreted in a comparison mode in some contexts and in a categorization mode in other contexts. and type 3 metaphors are interpreted in a categorization mode. Type 1 is novel, relational metaphors, type 2 is conventional, double metaphors, and type 3 is dead, attributional metaphors.