Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on...
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Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures
Contents; 1 What Is Metaphor?; 2 Common Source and Target Domains; 3 Kinds of Metaphor; 4 Metaphor in Literature; 5 Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metaphors; 6 The Basis of Metaphor; 7 The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Mappings; 8 Cognitive Models, Metaphors, and Embodiment; 9 Metaphorical Entailments; 10 The Scope of Metaphor; 11 Metaphor Systems; 12 Another Figure: Metonymy; 13 The Universality of Conceptual Metaphors; 14 Cultural Variation in Metaphor and Metonymy; 15 Metaphor, Metonymy, and Idioms; 16 Metaphor and Metonymy in the Study of Language; 17 Metaphors and Blends
18 Metaphor in Discourse19 How Does All This Hang Together?; Glossary; Solutions to Exercises; Bibliography; General Index; Metaphor and Metonymy Index
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