1. Introduction; 2. The basics of metaphor; 3. Metaphoric structure: levels and relations; 4. Mental spaces and blending; 5. Metonymy; 6. Grammatical constructions and figurative meaning; 7. The cross-linguistic study of metaphor; 8. Figurative language in discourse; 9. Concluding remarks.
This lively, comprehensive and practical book offers a new, integrated and linguistically sound understanding of what figurative language is.
Barbara Dancygier is Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. Eve Sweetser is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
'This book breaks new ground in the cognitive linguistic study of
metaphor, simile and metonymy. A must read for anyone interested in
figurative language, cognition and discourse.' Elena Semino,
Lancaster University
'Figurative Language is a marvelous book that will serve as both a
very readable textbook for students and a source of research ideas
for even expert figurative language scholars. The presentation of
the complex cognitive linguistic literature on this topic is
complete, well-organized, and illustrated with wonderful examples
from literature, politics, science and religious discourse. I was
most impressed by the way Dancygier and Sweetser blend together the
diverse aspects of figuration into a more general framework that
reveals deeper insights into the relations between language,
thought, and culture.' Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, University of
California, Santa Cruz
'… clearly has educational value for students, but the book's
powerful explanatory framework also will be of interest to scholars
in linguistics, cognition, and literature … thought provoking and
insightful.' PsycCRITIQUES
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