Metaphor: A Practical Introduction

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Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 M03 12 - 375 páginas
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.

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1 What Is Metaphor?
3
2 Common Source and Target Domains
17
3 Kinds of Metaphor
33
4 Metaphor in Literature
49
5 Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metaphors
63
6 The Basis of Metaphor
77
7 The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Mappings
91
8 Cognitive Models Metaphors and Embodiment
107
14 Cultural Variation in Metaphor and Metonymy
215
15 Metaphor Metonymy and Idioms
231
16 Metaphor and Metonymy in the Study of Language
251
17 Metaphors and Blends
267
18 Metaphor in Discourse
285
19 How Does All This Hang Together?
305
Glossary
323
Solutions to Exercises
331

9 Metaphorical Entailments
121
10 The Scope of Metaphor
135
11 Metaphor Systems
149
Metonymy
171
13 The Universality of Conceptual Metaphors
195

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Zoltan Kovecses is Professor of Linguistics, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Zoltan Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

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