Metaphor and Discourse [Hardcover]

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.Acknowledgements Introduction: A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding; J.Zinken ?& A.Musolff PART I: METAPHOR IN DISCOURSE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Metaphor, Culture, Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence; Z.K?ve cses Three?Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy; G.Steen Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending; P.Chilton Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor; C.De Landtsheer Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence; J.Barnden PART II: METAPHORS IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC DISCOURSES: CASE STUDIES Metaphor and Political Communication; J.Charteris-Black Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse; V.Koller How Business Press Headlines get their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor; M.White ?& H.Herrera MRSA - Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts; B.Nerlich ?& N.Koteyko PART III: METAPHOR EVOLUTION IN DISCOURSE HISTORY Shifting Identities: Metaphors of Discourse Evolution; R.Frank 'Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be': Linguistic Mercantilism in Renaissance France; D.Cowling Interpretations of the Body Politic and of?Natural Bodies?in Late Sixteenth-Century France; K.Banks Bodies Politic and Bodies Cosmic: the Roman Stoic Theory of the 'Two Cities'; J.Zavadil Metaphor in the History of Ideas and in the History of Dis?course: How Can We Interpret a Medieval Version of the Body-state Analogy?; A.Musolff Commentary: Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data; R.W.Gibbs, Jr .?& J.E.Lonergan Index

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