Metaphor in Use

Context, culture, and communication

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| University of Extremadura
| University of Extremadura
| University of Extremadura
| University of Extremadura
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Metaphor is a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also complex and multi-faceted, varying in how it is manifested in different modes of expression, languages, cultures, or time-scales. How then can we reliably identify metaphors in different contexts? How does the language or culture of speakers and hearers affect the way metaphors are produced or interpreted? Are the methods employed to explore metaphors in one context applicable in others? The sixteen chapters that make up this volume offer not only detailed studies of the situated use of metaphor in language, gesture, and visuals around the world – providing important insights into the different factors that produce variation – but also careful explication and discussion of the methodological issues that arise when researchers approach metaphor in diverse ‘real world’ contexts. The book constitutes an important contribution to applied metaphor studies, and will prove an invaluable resource for the novice and experienced metaphor researcher alike.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 38] 2012.  x, 379 pp.
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“This collection of essays is a highly impressive and valuable addition to the body of research on conceptual metaphor. The editors have performed an outstanding job in bringing together scholars that have elaborately explored the interaction between conceptual metaphor, discourse, and culture.”
“The chapters in the book bring out fascinating and demanding issues of methodology that are raised when working across cultures and contexts, and supply a range of responses that will be invaluable for metaphor researchers. [...] Any metaphor scholar will find something new, challenging, and interesting in this collection.”
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Musolff, Andreas
Bort-Mir, Lorena
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Pehlivanović, Alma & Mersina Mujagić
2022. The linguistic metaphor storm clouds in public discourse on COVID-19. Post Scriptum 11:11  pp. 339 ff. DOI logo
Jensen, Thomas Wiben & Linda Greve
2019. Ecological Cognition and Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol 34:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Reijnierse, W. Gudrun, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr & Gerard J. Steen
2019. Metaphor in communication: the distribution of potentially deliberate metaphor across register and word class. Corpora 14:3  pp. 301 ff. DOI logo
Tay, Dennis
2017. The Nuances of Metaphor Theory for Constructivist Psychotherapy. Journal of Constructivist Psychology 30:2  pp. 165 ff. DOI logo
Roncero, Carlos, Roberto G. de Almeida, Deborah C. Martin & Marco de Caro
2016. Aptness Predicts Metaphor Preference in the Lab and on the Internet. Metaphor and Symbol 31:1  pp. 31 ff. DOI logo
Herrmann, J. Berenike & Tony Berber Sardinha
2015. Metaphor in specialist discourse. In Metaphor in Specialist Discourse [Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4],  pp. 3 ff. DOI logo
Shah, Dil Froz Jan Sayed Halem, Faridah Ibrahim, Norzita Yunus, Abdul Mua’ti bin Ahmad, Hamisah Hassan & Rosya Izyanie Shamshudeen
2014. Metaphor of ‘Progress’: A Metaphoric Rhetorical Criticism on Aminuddin Baki's Torch Movement Speech 2. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 155  pp. 526 ff. DOI logo
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2016. Metaphor [Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, ], DOI logo

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Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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