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9 February 2010
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Confronting Metaphor in UseAn applied linguistic approach
2008. vii, 315 pp.
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978 90 272 5417 7 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
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It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived. 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.
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“This timely publication reacts to the long-standing tendency of the cognitive linguistic community to focus on conceptual metaphor theory to the exclusion of natural language data, and is a welcome contribution to the study of metaphor in discourse. [...] It may be of special interest to readers working in or researching educational setting. It will also appeal to a wider audience because of the range of theoretical framework, mehods, and both quantitative and qualitative studies it offers, and the general theoretical discussions arising from the data.”
Tina Krennmayr, VU University, Amsterdam, in Metaphor and Symbol 24 (2009)
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Linguistics