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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958936203321
• 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.

Metaphor and metonymy in comparison and contrast / / edited by Rene Dirven, Ralf Porings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910967630303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002
• ISBN: 9786612345333; 9781282345331; 1282345338; 9783110219197; 3110219190
• Edizione: [Reprint 2014]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (620 p.)
• Collana: Cognitive linguistics research ; ; 20
• Classificazione: ET 425
• Altri autori (Persone): DirvenRené; PöringsRalf
• Disciplina: 401/.43; 401.43
• Soggetti: Metaphor; Metonyms; Cognitive grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: The metonymic and the metaphoric -- The metaphoric and metonymic poles -- Generating polysemy: Metaphor and metonymy -- Metonymy and metaphor: Different mental strategies of conceptualisation -- An ; alternative account of the interpretation of referential metonymy and metaphor -- Section 2: The two-domain approach -- Language and emotion: The interplay of conceptualisation with physiology and culture -- The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies -- Clarifying and applying the notions of metaphor and metonymy within cognitive linguistics: An update -- The roles of metaphor and metonymy in English -er nominals -- Section 3: The interaction between metaphor and metonymy -- Category extension by metonymy and metaphor -- Metaphtonymy: The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in expressions for linguistic actIon -- When is a metonymy no longer a metonymy? -- How metonymic are metaphors? -- The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions -- Section 4: New breakthroughs: Blending and primary scenes -- Metaphor, metonymy, and binding -- Patterns of conceptual interaction -- Converging evidence for the notions of subscene and primary scene -- Blending the past and the present: Conceptual and linguistic integration, 1800-2000 -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many brilliant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's two domain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization. Further approaches dwell on different stretches of this metaphor-metonymy continuum. Still other papers probe into the specialized conceptual division of labor associated with both modes of thought. Two new breakthroughs in the cognitive linguistics approach to metaphor and metonymy have recently been developed: one is the three-domain approach, which concentrates on the new blends that become possible after the integration or the blending of source and target domain elements; the other is the approach in terms of primary scenes and subscenes which often determine the way source and target domains interact.