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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828313803321

Autore

Underhill James W (James William)

Titolo

Creating worldviews : metaphor, ideology and language / / James W. Underhill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-7486-5156-X

1-283-22176-4

9786613221766

0-7486-4700-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

Meaning (Philosophy)

Metaphor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Metaphor; Chapter 1 Metaphor and World-Conceiving; Chapter 2 A Concern for Metaphor; Chapter 3 Metaphors We Live By; Chapter 4 Other Developments in Metaphor Theory; Chapter 5 Further Cognitive Contributions to Metaphor Theory; Chapter 6 Diversity on the Periphery; Part II Case Studies in Metaphor; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 7 The Language of Czechoslovak Communist Power; Chapter 8 Hitlerdeutsch: Klemperer and the Language of the Third Reich; Chapter 9 Language in Metaphors; A Final Word; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought  Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.