Metaphor in Use - 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 in Use write by Fiona MacArthur. This book was released on 2012. Metaphor in Use available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse 'real world' contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.
Confronting Metaphor in Use
Confronting Metaphor in Use - 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 Confronting Metaphor in Use write by Mara Sophia Zanotto. This book was released on 2008. Confronting Metaphor in Use available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived. This book brings language and social dimensions into the picture, offering snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the very different cultures of Europe and Brazil and contributing to the theorizing of metaphor in discourse.
Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage
Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage - 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 Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage write by Gerard J. Steen. This book was released on 2007-11-14. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of methods and techniques. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage aims to map the field of this development in theory and research from a methodological perspective. It raises the question when exactly evidence for metaphor in language and thought can be said to count as converging. It also goes into the various stages of producing such evidence (conceptualization, operationalization, data collection and analysis, and interpretation). The book offers systematic discussion of eight distinct areas of metaphor research that emerge as a result of approaching metaphor as part of grammar or usage, language or thought, and symbolic structure or cognitive process.
Metaphor Wars
Metaphor Wars - 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 Wars write by Raymond W. Gibbs. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Metaphor Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.
Metaphors We Live By
Metaphors We Live By - 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 Metaphors We Live By write by George Lakoff. This book was released on 2008-12-19. Metaphors We Live By available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
