Metaphor and Figurative Language

ISBN-13: 9780415392495 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 3200 str.

Patrick Hanks;Rachel Giora

Opis

With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series.

Metaphor, Analogy, and Figurative Language is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential library purchase and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital reference work and research tool.

Spis treści

Volume I: Theoretical issues  Part 1: Foundations  Part 2: Philosophy of Metaphor  Part 3: Beyond Similarity and Class Inclusion  Part 4: Conceptual Metaphor  Part 5: Blending Theory  Part 6: Relevance Theory  Part 7: Metaphor and Context  Volume II: Typology of Figurative Language  Part 8: Metaphor and Simile  Part 9: Metonymy  Part 10: Pictorial Metaphor  Part 11: Conventional Metaphors and Idioms  Part 12: Time and Space  Part 13: Embodied Metaphor  Volume III: Literary and Cross-cultural Perspectives  Part 14: Metaphor in Literary Theory  Part 15: Case Studies  Part 16: Cross-cultural Perspectives  Volume IV: Cognition and Metaphor  Part 17: Processing  Part 18: Degrees of Salience  Part 19: Is Metaphor Unique?  Part 20: Aptness  Part 21: Developmental Aspects  Volume V: Brain and Metaphor  Part 22: Is the Right Hemisphere Uniquely Involved in Metaphor Comprehension?  Part 23: Effects of Degree of Salience  Part 24: Clinical Populations  Part 25: The Effect of Task  Part 26: Methodologies  Volume VI: Empirical Analysis of Figurative Language  Part 27: Corpus-Based Analyses  Part 28: Applied Metaphor Studies  Part 29: Computational Approaches