The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought [Paperback]

In this book, a distinguished cast of authors explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression.The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought explores the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression.The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought explores the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression.The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.Part I. The Roots of Metaphor: 1. The neural theory of metaphor George Lakoff; 2. Philosophy's debt to metaphor Mark Johnson; 3. Rethinking metaphor Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner; 4. How metaphor creates categories - quickly! Sam Glucksberg; 5. A deflationary theory of metaphors Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson; Part II. Metaphor Understanding: 6. Metaphor as structure-mapping Dedre Gentner and Brian Bowdle; 7. How the mind computes the meaning of metaphors: a simulation based on LSA Walter Kintsch; 8. Is metaphor unique? Rachel Giora; 9. Metaphor, imagl#L