Ebook: Metaphor in use : context, culture, and communication
Author: Fiona Macarthur, et al
- Series: Human cognitive processing v. 38
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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Metaphoric language is very much the product of human action, and many scholars now claim that metaphor in language arises from metaphors in thought. But the reasons for why we think metaphorically and speak (gesture) in these ways may be rooted in principles of self-organization that describe the existence, and forms, of many other animate and inanimate things, ranging from snowflakes to termite nests. This chapter Read more...
Content: 1. List of contributors, pvii; 2. Acknowledgements, pix-x; 3. Introduction: Metaphor in use (by MacArthur, Fiona), p1-18; 4. Part 1. Contexts of research; 5. Chapter 1. An assessment of metaphor retrieval methods (by Berber Sardinha, Tony), p21-50; 6. Chapter 2. Metaphor in discourse: Beyond the boundaries of MIP (by Kaal, Anna), p51-68; 7. Chapter 3. Metaphor identification in Dutch discourse (by Pasma, Trijntje), p69-84; 8. Chapter 4. Locating metaphor candidates in specialized corpora using raw frequency and keyword lists (by Philip, Gill), p85-106; 9. Part 2. Contexts of production; 10. Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English: Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter? (by Johansson Falck, Marlene), p109-134; 11. Chapter 6. Metaphorical expressions in L2 production: The importance of the text topic in corpus research (by Golden, Anne), p135-148; 12. Chapter 7. Researching linguistic metaphor in native, non-native and expert writing (by Chapeton-Castro, Claudia Marcela), p149-174; 13. Part 3. Contexts of interpretation; 14. Chapter 8. Appreciation and interpretation of visual metaphors in advertising across three European countries (by Mulken, Margot van), p177-194; 15. Chapter 9. English native speakers' interpretations of culture-bound Japanese figurative expressions (by Azuma, Masumi), p195-216; 16. Chapter 10. The limits of comprehension in cross-cultural metaphor: Networking in drugs terminology (by Trim, Richard), p217-236; 17. Part 4. Metaphor, topic, and discourse; 18. Chapter 11. Conceptual types of terminological metaphors in marine biology: An English-Spanish contrastive analysis from an experientialist perspective (by Urena Gomez-Moreno, Jose Manuel), p239-260; 19. Chapter 12. Gestures, language, and what they reveal about thought: A music teacher's use of metaphor in Taiwan (by Chuang, Ya-Chin), p261-282; 20. Part 5. Metaphor and culture; 21. Chapter 13. Armed with patience, suffering an emotion: The conceptualization of life, morality, and emotion in Turkish (by Aksan, Yesim), p285-308; 22. Chapter 14. Trolls (by Alm-Arvius, Christina), p309-328; 23. Chapter 15. A computational exploration of creative similes (by Veale, Tony), p329-344; 24. Part 6. Afterword and prospects for future research; 25. Chapter 16. Metaphors, snowflakes, and termite nests: How nature creates such beautiful things (by Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.), p347-372; 26. Name index, p373-374; 27. Terms index, p375-380
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