Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

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.

Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

Kovecses

Oxford University Press

2010

Abstract

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. Nonlinguistics realizations of conceptual metaphors

6. The basis of metaphors

7. The partial nature of metaphorical mappings

8. Cognitive modelss, metaphors, and embodiment

9. Metaphorical entailments

10. The scope of metaphors

11. Metaphors systems

12. Another figure: metonymy

13. The universality of conceptual metaphors

14. Cultural variation in metaphor and metonymy

15. Metaphor, mtonymy and idioms

16. Metaphor and metonymy in the study of language

17. Metaphors and blends; metaphors on discourse

18. How does all this Hang together?

Citation

Kovecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, 2010

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