Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking, constructing analogies, and making connections between ideas, and an important way of using language to explain abstract ideas or to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. By investigating peoples use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. When real-world language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers face methodological...
Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking, constructing analogies, and making connections between ideas, and an important way of using la...
