Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview write by Dilin Liu. This book was released on 2002. Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages.
Creating Worldviews
Creating Worldviews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Worldviews write by James W. Underhill. This book was released on 2011-06-08. Creating Worldviews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world.This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French & English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts evolving over t
Cultural Metaphors
Cultural Metaphors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Metaphors write by Martin J. Gannon. This book was released on 2001. Cultural Metaphors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The often-overlooked views of political scientists and journalists who conceive of the world in terms of zero-sum games are explored, as are the issues of the symbolism associated with cultural metaphors. The book concludes with a description of specific uses of cultural metaphors or metaphorical applications."--BOOK JACKET.
Creating Worldviews
Creating Worldviews - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating Worldviews write by James William Underhill. This book was released on 2011. Creating Worldviews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world. This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it describes the way language systems (French and English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts evolving over time. Including a multilingual glossary of key terms and concepts, this is an ideal volume for anyone new to the topic, as well as those already interested in metaphor theory and the analysis of worldviews. -- Publisher description.
Metaphor and Culture
Metaphor and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Metaphor and Culture write by Katharina Eder. This book was released on 2011-05. Metaphor and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The first question that arises is in the context of "Metaphor and Culture" is what metaphor actually has to do with culture. This question can be answered in the way that metaphor and culture are related in many ways. Metaphor can be viewed as the ornamental use of language, and a lot about metaphor and culture arises from what we have heard or learned in school about it, such as for instance creative writers or poets who use metaphors. Since literature is a significant part of our culture, metaphor can be regarded as intimately linked to our socio-cultural field. So a possible way of relation between metaphor and culture would be literature, an exemplary manifestation of culture. However, there are in fact much more fundamental relations between metaphor and culture, which become clear when we look at some currrent thinking in anthropology, which leads us to the fact that we can view culture as a set of shared understandings that characterize smaller or larger groups of people (cf. Shore 1996, Strauss & Quinn 1997). It has to be noted that this is obviously not an exhaustive view or definition of culture, considering the fact that it leaves out real artifacts, real objects, practices, institutions, actions and so on, which people participate in and use in various cultures. However, it integrates a large part of it, namely the shared understanding that human beings have in connection with all of these "things."
