Mapping English Metaphor Through Time / edited by Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell, Carole Hough

• Autore: Anderson Wendy
• Pubblicazione: Oxford University Press, 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (344 pages)
• Disciplina: 420.143
• Soggetto topico: Metaphor - History; English language - Semantics; English language - Semantics, Historical; Metaphor
• Persona (resp. second.): BramwellEllen; HoughCarole
• Nota di contenuto: Title List of Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Introduction: The pursuit of metaphors Part I: The External World Part II: The Mental World Part III: The Social World
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English. Metaphor is one of the hot topics in present-day linguistics, with a huge range of research focusing on the systematic connections between different concepts such as heat and anger (fuming, inflamed), sight and understanding (clear, see), or bodies and landscape (hill-foot, river-mouth). Until recently, the lack of a comprehensive data source made it difficult to obtain an overview of this phenomenon in any language, but this changed with the completion in 2009 of The Historical Thesaurus of English, the only historical thesaurus ever produced for any language. Chapters in this volume use this unique resource as a basis for case studies of semantic domains including Animals, Colour, Death, Fear, Food, Reading, and Theft, providing a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
• ISBN: 0-19-106202-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155497403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II