Kittay on the “Default Frames”
When a given sentence has been artificially taken out of context…the features of the world that we take to be normal, and our usual expectations of our world (as far as [we may think] these are relevant to the utterance) serve as an implicit context (the default frame) determining our interpretation.
E. F. Kittay, Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure
(Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987), 55-59.