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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958936203321

Titolo

Confronting metaphor in use : an applied linguistic approach / / edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, Marilda C. Cavalcanti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing, c2008

ISBN

9786612152092

9781282152090

1282152092

9789027291424

902729142X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

vi, 315 p. : ill

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser., v. 173

Classificazione

ET 425

Altri autori (Persone)

ZanottoMara Sophia

CameronLynne

CavalcantiMarilda do Couto

Disciplina

418

Soggetti

Metaphor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Opening Pandora's box / Mara Sophia Zanotto and Dieli Vesaro Palma -- Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk / Lynne Cameron -- Adding sound to the picture / Frank Boers and Helene Stengers -- Metaphor and positioning in academic book reviews / Graham Low -- Brothers in arms / Veronika Koller -- Metaphor probabilities in corpora / Tony Berber Sardinha -- Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory / Alice Deignan -- Exploring metaphors in corpora / Solange Vereza -- Young learners' understanding of figurative language / Ana M. Piquer-Piriz -- The relationship between associative thinking, analogical reasoning, image formation and metaphoric extension strategies / Jeannette Littlemore -- The awakening of Sleeping Beauty / Joao A. Telles -- En route through metaphors / Marilda C. Cavalcanti and Ana Cecilia Bizon -- School teachers in favela contexts / Fernanda Coelho Liberali -- Professional knowledge landscape / Maximina F. Freire.

Sommario/riassunto

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.