Zanotto / Cameron / Cavalcanti Confronting Metaphor in Use

An applied linguistic approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-272-9142-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 173, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zanotto, Mara Sophia

Cameron, Lynne

Cavalcanti, Marilda C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft