This book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in building reviews, and the conceptual mappings that motivate them. The genre perspective adopted throughout the work offers a view of figurative language that considers its …
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Review text: "As a systematic and comprehensive book, it is a major contribution to theparadigms of the theory of Conceptual Metaphor within the parameters of aspecific genre."Eduardo Urios-Aparisi in: Linguist List 22.2466.
"Re-Viewing Space. Figurative Language in Architects' Assessment of Built Space draws attention to the structure of mind as shown by the pervasiveness of figurative language in all kinds of discourse. It integrates insights from cognitive theory with discourse analytic procedure…
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"The words we use when we talk and write about architecture describe more than just bricks and mortar - they direct the ways we think of and live with buildings. This original and thoughtful study provides the first thorough examination of the relationship between architecture a…
This exploration of the relationship between architecture and language examines both as complex social practices. Chapters include: language and drawing, gender in architecture, science in architecture and a vocabulary of key words.