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Metaphor and communication : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari
| Metaphor and communication : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Communication Discourse analysis |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view?; 1. Introduction; 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; 2.1 Corpus data; 2.2 Speakers' behaviour; 3. The communicative dimension of metaphor; 3.1 Persuasion in politics; 3.2 Persuasion in media and advertising; 3.3 Instruction and entertainment in education and arts; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison; 1. Introduction
2. The Comparison/Categorization debate3. Ellipsis-based mischaracterization of Comparison theory; 4. Towards an alternative battlefield; 4.1 Target/Source contribution disparity; 4.2 Target/Source mediator-preservation degree; 4.3 Mediator carefulness; 5. An example of the application of the dimensions; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic synaesthesia; 1.2 Taste: A few words for a complex experience; 2. A corpus-based analysis of taste synaesthesias; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Results 3. Metaphors of taste3.1 The semantics of taste: A paradox?; 3.2 Grounded taste metaphors; 3.3 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different sema; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus study: Identifying more and less conventional metaphors; 2.1 Theoretical considerations: Conventionality and frequency; 2.2 Method and results; 3. Metaphorical commercial events; 4. The field of bodily harm; 5. Linking low-level creativity and high-level conventionality: The notion of intersubjectivity; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement ReferencesMetaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedure; 3. Analysis; 4. Discussion; 5. General discussion and conclusions; References; Author's address; Appendix A; Appendix B; Towards a model of metaphorical understanding; 1. Introduction; 2. Metaphorical understanding; 3. On propositional understanding; 4. On imagistic understanding; 5. On the sensorimotor aspects of imagery; 6. Modelling imagistic component in metaphor understanding; 7. Communicating with metaphors: Believing game and doubting game 8. Towards a unified model of understanding |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910466322203321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and communication / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari
| Metaphor and communication / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Communication Discourse analysis |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view?; 1. Introduction; 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; 2.1 Corpus data; 2.2 Speakers' behaviour; 3. The communicative dimension of metaphor; 3.1 Persuasion in politics; 3.2 Persuasion in media and advertising; 3.3 Instruction and entertainment in education and arts; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison; 1. Introduction
2. The Comparison/Categorization debate3. Ellipsis-based mischaracterization of Comparison theory; 4. Towards an alternative battlefield; 4.1 Target/Source contribution disparity; 4.2 Target/Source mediator-preservation degree; 4.3 Mediator carefulness; 5. An example of the application of the dimensions; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic synaesthesia; 1.2 Taste: A few words for a complex experience; 2. A corpus-based analysis of taste synaesthesias; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Results 3. Metaphors of taste3.1 The semantics of taste: A paradox?; 3.2 Grounded taste metaphors; 3.3 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different sema; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus study: Identifying more and less conventional metaphors; 2.1 Theoretical considerations: Conventionality and frequency; 2.2 Method and results; 3. Metaphorical commercial events; 4. The field of bodily harm; 5. Linking low-level creativity and high-level conventionality: The notion of intersubjectivity; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement ReferencesMetaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedure; 3. Analysis; 4. Discussion; 5. General discussion and conclusions; References; Author's address; Appendix A; Appendix B; Towards a model of metaphorical understanding; 1. Introduction; 2. Metaphorical understanding; 3. On propositional understanding; 4. On imagistic understanding; 5. On the sensorimotor aspects of imagery; 6. Modelling imagistic component in metaphor understanding; 7. Communicating with metaphors: Believing game and doubting game 8. Towards a unified model of understanding |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798022503321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and communication / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari
| Metaphor and communication / / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Communication Discourse analysis |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view?; 1. Introduction; 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; 2.1 Corpus data; 2.2 Speakers' behaviour; 3. The communicative dimension of metaphor; 3.1 Persuasion in politics; 3.2 Persuasion in media and advertising; 3.3 Instruction and entertainment in education and arts; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison; 1. Introduction
2. The Comparison/Categorization debate3. Ellipsis-based mischaracterization of Comparison theory; 4. Towards an alternative battlefield; 4.1 Target/Source contribution disparity; 4.2 Target/Source mediator-preservation degree; 4.3 Mediator carefulness; 5. An example of the application of the dimensions; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic synaesthesia; 1.2 Taste: A few words for a complex experience; 2. A corpus-based analysis of taste synaesthesias; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Results 3. Metaphors of taste3.1 The semantics of taste: A paradox?; 3.2 Grounded taste metaphors; 3.3 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different sema; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus study: Identifying more and less conventional metaphors; 2.1 Theoretical considerations: Conventionality and frequency; 2.2 Method and results; 3. Metaphorical commercial events; 4. The field of bodily harm; 5. Linking low-level creativity and high-level conventionality: The notion of intersubjectivity; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement ReferencesMetaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedure; 3. Analysis; 4. Discussion; 5. General discussion and conclusions; References; Author's address; Appendix A; Appendix B; Towards a model of metaphorical understanding; 1. Introduction; 2. Metaphorical understanding; 3. On propositional understanding; 4. On imagistic understanding; 5. On the sensorimotor aspects of imagery; 6. Modelling imagistic component in metaphor understanding; 7. Communicating with metaphors: Believing game and doubting game 8. Towards a unified model of understanding |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813869503321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera
| Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Cognitive linguistics research |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Metonyms Figures of speech Linguistic change Sociolinguistics Language and culture |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
3-11-033545-X
3-11-039539-8 |
| Classificazione | EC 3765 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figuration and language history: Universality and variation -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor -- Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese -- The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts -- ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis -- Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach -- ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464172203321 |
| Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera
| Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Cognitive linguistics research |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Metonyms Figures of speech Linguistic change Sociolinguistics Language and culture |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cognitive Linguistics
Figurative Language Linguistic Change |
| ISBN |
3-11-033545-X
3-11-039539-8 |
| Classificazione | EC 3765 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figuration and language history: Universality and variation -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor -- Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese -- The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts -- ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis -- Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach -- ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788818403321 |
| Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera
| Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Cognitive linguistics research |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Metonyms Figures of speech Linguistic change Sociolinguistics Language and culture |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cognitive Linguistics
Figurative Language Linguistic Change |
| ISBN |
3-11-033545-X
3-11-039539-8 |
| Classificazione | EC 3765 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figuration and language history: Universality and variation -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor -- Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese -- The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts -- ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis -- Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach -- ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808876103321 |
| Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay
| Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay |
| Autore | Tay Dennis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 211 p |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Psychotherapy Discourse analysis Counseling Psycholinguistics |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-7161-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151820503321 |
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Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay
| Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay |
| Autore | Tay Dennis |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 211 p |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Psychotherapy Discourse analysis Counseling Psycholinguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-7161-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779878203321 |
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Tay Dennis
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| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay
| Metaphor in psychotherapy [[electronic resource] ] : a descriptive and prescriptive analysis / / Dennis Tay |
| Autore | Tay Dennis |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 211 p |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Psychotherapy Discourse analysis Counseling Psycholinguistics |
| ISBN | 90-272-7161-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Metaphor in Psychotherapy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction: A metaphor renaissance -- 1.1 From language to cognition, and back -- 1.2 Metaphors in psychotherapy -- 1.3 Towards a descriptive and prescriptive analysis: Aims and outline -- 1.4 Remarks on methodology and data -- 1.4.1 Data sources and transcription conventions -- 1.4.2 Metaphor identification and description -- 2. The nature of psychotherapeutic discourse -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Layers of context in psychotherapeutic discourse -- 2.3 The ideational resources of metaphors -- 2.3.1 Embodied knowledge -- 2.3.2 Cultural knowledge -- 2.3.3 Individual-specific knowledge -- 2.3.4 Socio-cultural situatedness and metaphor -- 2.4 The rhetorical development of metaphor -- 2.4.1 Correspondence: Systematic mappings between domains -- 2.4.2 Class inclusion: Extraction of superordinate categories -- 2.4.3 Career-of-metaphor: Integrating correspondence and class inclusion -- 2.4.4 Conceptual blending: On metaphoric creativity -- 2.5 The consistency, variability, and variation of metaphor in discourse -- 2.6 The co-text of metaphoric expressions in discourse -- 2.7 The prescriptive aim: Contributions to psychotherapy -- 2.7.1 Uniformity and depth: Rethinking the mechanism of metaphor -- 2.8 Summary -- 3. The ideational resources of metaphors: Embodied, cultural, and individual-specific knowledge -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 'Stabilities' in metaphoric discourse -- 3.3 Analysis -- 3.3.1 Background of therapist and patient -- 3.3.2 Session 1: "There's this giant wall around me" -- 3.3.3 Session 2: "I am Sara" -- 3.3.4 Session 3: "The little boy is locked up in me!" -- 3.3.5 Session 4: "I want to give birth" -- 3.4 The Prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of complementarity -- 3.4.1 The Biopsychosocial model of metaphor therapy.
3.4.2 The 7-step interview protocol -- 3.5 Summary -- 4. Metaphor types and the rhetorical development of metaphors -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Metaphor types as a discourse derivative -- 4.3 The alignment metaphor type for 'conceptual explication' -- 4.3.1 Conceptual explication in psychotherapy -- 4.4 The category metaphor type for 'principle highlighting' -- 4.4.1 Principle highlighting in psychotherapy -- 4.5 Shifting discourse circumstances in psychotherapy -- 4.5.1 Global-to-specific shift in discourse focus -- 4.5.2 Pragmatic complexities: A case of boundary violation -- 4.6 The prescriptive aim: Applying knowledge of metaphor types -- 4.6.1 Two protocols for developing patient metaphors -- 4.6.2 Metaphor types as differnt bridges between sources and targets -- 4.7 Summary -- 5. Metaphoric consistency and variability as therapeutic discourse strategies -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Categories of metaphoric consistency and variability -- 5.3 Analysis -- 5.3.1 Metaphoric consistency -- 5.3.2 Metaphoric variability: Same source, different targets -- 5.3.3 Same target, different sources -- 5.3.4 Switching between different sources and targets -- 5.4 The prescriptive aim: Towards a consideration of the therapeutic functions of metaphor variabili -- 5.5 Summary -- 6. From therapeutic discourse to the discourse of therapy -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Motivation and specification of Therapy is a Journey at four levels -- 6.2.1 Level 1: The primary and conceptual metaphoric level -- 6.2.2 Level 2: Theorisation -- 6.2.3 Level 3: Therapist training models: The river and the road journey -- 6.2.4 Level 4: Actual therapeutic talk -- 6.3 Summary of journey metaphors across the four levels -- 6.4 The prescriptive aim: Discourse metaphors as feedback -- 6.5 Summary -- 7. The co-text of metaphors: Discourse markers as signalling devices -- 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Signalling/tuning devices in the co-text and context -- 7.3 The co-occurrence of discourse markers and metaphors -- 7.4 Analysis -- 7.5 The prescriptive aim: Leveraging upon the cognitive and social functions of discourse markers -- 7.6 Summary -- Appendix -- 8. Summary, emergent themes and future directions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The descriptive and prescriptive aims: A synthesised summary -- 8.3 Emergent themes -- 8.3.1 Metaphors operate over different scales of therapeutic activity -- 8.3.2 Metaphors fulfil ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions -- 8.3.3 Metaphor use and management as both 'science' and 'art' -- 8.4 Future directions for metaphor research and psychotherapeutic practice -- 8.4.1 Other approaches to metaphor in psychotherapy -- 8.4.2 Turning therapeutic implications into actions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index. |
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| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metaphor in specialist discourse / / edited by J. Berenike Herrmann, Göttingen University ; Tony Berber Sardinha, Sao Paulo Catholic University
| Metaphor in specialist discourse / / edited by J. Berenike Herrmann, Göttingen University ; Tony Berber Sardinha, Sao Paulo Catholic University |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
| Disciplina | 808/.032 |
| Collana | Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication |
| Soggetto topico |
Metaphor
Discourse analysis |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 90-272-6784-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Metaphor in Specialist Discourse; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgment; Preface; Section I. Introduction; Metaphor in specialist discourse: Investigating metaphor use in specific and popularized discourse contexts; 1. Idea for the book; 2. Theoretical framework and methodologies; 3. Overview; Acknowledgments; References; Section II. Metaphor variation in specialist discourse; Register variation and metaphor use: A multi-dimensional perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. The multi-feature multi-dimensional approach; 3. Method; 3.1 Corpus
3.2 Metaphor identification3.3 Tagging; 3.4 Variables; 4. Results; 4.1 Question 1: Relationship between metaphor and previous dimensions of variation; 4.2 Question 2: Dimensions of variation; 4.3 Question 3: Significance of register distinctions; 4.4 Question 4: Cutting across register differences; 5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix; Metaphors in psychology genres: Counseling vs. academic lectures; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpora; 2.1 The counseling corpus; 2.2 The academic lecture corpus; 3. Method; 3.1 The target domains; 3.2 Identification of linguistic metaphors 3.3 Grouping metaphorical expressions and formulating conceptual metaphors4. Results; 4.1 Love metaphors; 4.2 anger metaphors; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Section III. Metaphor in specific contexts; Payback and punishment: Figurative language in Scottish penal policy; 1. Introduction; 2. Context of the present analysis; 3. Method; 4. Findings from automatic frequency analysis; 4.1 Most frequent figuratively-used lexical words; 4.2 Payback; 5. Findings from manual analysis; 5.1 Deliver; 5.2 Manage, management; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References They have to die for the goals: War metaphors in English and German football radio commentary1. Football - A popularised specialist discourse domain; 2. Methodology; 2.1 Metaphor identification; 2.2 Quantitative analysis; 2.3 Qualitative analysis; 3. Corpus design; 3.1 Why radio commentaries?; 3.2 Compilation of the corpus; 4. Results; 4.1 Quantitative analysis; 4.2 Qualitative analysis; 5. Comparison; 6. Specialist terms, specialist metaphor; References The production line as a context for low metaphoricity: Exploring links between gestures, iconicity, and artefacts on a factory shop floor1. Introduction; 1.1 Gestures, metonymy, and metaphor; 1.2 The relationship between metaphor and metonymy; 2. The salmon factory; 3. Methods; 4. Types of gestures at the salmon factory; 4.1 Conversational gesturing; 4.2 Technical gesturing; 5. Discussion; 6. Gesture, metaphor, and language; Acknowledgements; References; Section IV. Metaphor in science writing High on metaphor, low on simile? An examination of metaphor type in sub-registers of academic prose |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460606303321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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