Introducing Metaphor

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-27801-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation. Rosamund Moon and Murray Knowles, draw on a wide selection of material to explore metaphor in relation to text, discourse and society. Linguistic metaphor and literary metaphor are examined across a range of contexts, such as politics, sport and advertising, whilst literary metaphor is demonstrated through authentic extracts from fiction and poetry. A final section covering non-verbal metaphor looks at metaphor in art, cinema and music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knowles, Murray

Moon, Rosamund

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 INTRODUCING METAPHOR; Chapter 2 METAPHOR, WORDS, AND MEANINGS; Chapter 3 SYSTEMATIZING METAPHOR; Chapter 4 METONYMY; Chapter 5 UNDERSTANDING METAPHOR; Chapter 6 METAPHOR ACROSS LANGUAGES; Chapter 7 METAPHOR, IDEOLOGY, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT; Chapter 8 LITERARY METAPHOR; Chapter 9 NON-VERBAL METAPHOR; Chapter 10 CODA; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;

Über Autor(innen)

Rosamund Moon is a lecturer in English Language in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Her specialist teaching areas are lexis, lexicography, and the history of the language, and she has recently been involved in a research project on metaphor. Her publications mainly concern aspects of lexis, especially phraseology, and lexicography, and they include her book Fixed Expressions and English: A Corpus-based Approach (1998), OUP.

Murray Knowles is a lecturer in English Language and Literature in the department of English, University of Birmingham. His specialist teaching areas are lexis, sociolinguistics, language in literature and children's literature, and they include his book - co-written with Kirsten Malmkjaer - Language and Control in Children's Literature (1996), Routledge.