Metaphor and Figurative Language

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-39249-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 3200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 5522 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanks, Patrick

Giora, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Hanks is one of Britain’s leading lexicographers. He was responsible for the first editions of Collins English Dictionary, Cobuild, and The New Oxford Dictionary of English.

He is affiliated to the Computer Studies dept. at Brandeis University, focussing on corpus linguistics.