This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of i…
This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of i…
An analysis of the language of metaphor in international relations theory, this book offers a comprehensive study of metaphors as they are employed by scholars of world affairs. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of metaphors in theories of international relations. Metap…
According to the theoretical accounts which survive in the rhetorical handbooks of antiquity, allegory is extended metaphor, or an extended series of metaphors. Both allegory and metaphor are linguistic "tropes": their purpose is essentially ornamental. The distance posited here…
The metaphoric depiction of society and state as a body (in which each "organ" has its own function) has a long pedigree in the history of ideas in Europe. Examines the use of this metaphor by Nazi ideologists and particularly by Hitler in his "Mein Kampf", in the attempt to und…
"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."--Jacket.
Although most people would assume that metaphor's only place of influence is in literature and song, this title argues that metaphors are found in various aspects of life. It takes us from Aristotle's equation for metaphor x=y to showing how metaphors such as a soaring housing m…
by Idström, Anna, Falzett, Tiber
fromCognitive linguistic studies in cultural contexts
"Metaphor and Thought", first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays …
