Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World

Name: Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Graham Low Zazie Todd Alice Deignan Lynne Cameron(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 13. Oktober 2010

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Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Editors' introduction
1. The wonderful, chaotic, creative, heroic, challenging world of Researching and Applying Metaphor
1. Introduction
2. The scope of real-world metaphor research
3. Ongoing struggles
4. Important analytic advances
5. Some peeks into the future
6. Metaphorical aesthetics
7. Conclusion
References
Section 1. Metaphor and language learning
2. Can people be cold and warm? Developing understanding of figurative meanings of temperature terms in early EFL
1. Introduction
2. Warm and cold and domain knowledge
3. Method
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
Appendix
3. Grasping the point: A study of 15-year-old students' comprehension of metaphorical expressions in schoolbooks
1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Comprehension research: Focus on methods
4. Research questions
5. Participants
6. Procedure
7. Comprehension testing
8. Findings
9. Variability in expressions
10. Results from the sets
11. Summary - The variability of the expressions
12. Discussion
13. General results and remedies
Notes
References
4. "Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests": Metaphor and the language learner
1. Introduction
2. Metaphor and language learning
3. Encoding idiomatic meaning in the L2
4. Collocation and conceptualisation
5. Encoding L1 concepts in the L2: The creation of opaque metaphor
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
5. The gaps to be filled: Hand, cool and run in EFL text books
1. Introduction: Polysemy in the EFL classroom
2. Method
3. Description of results
4. Summary of results
5. The presentation and practice of hand, cool and run
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
6. A cross-cultural study of metaphoric understanding
1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1
3. Experiment 2
4. General discussion and conclusion
References
Appendix
Section 2. Capturing and analysing metaphors
7. Love, metaphor and responsibility: Some examples from Early Modern and Present-Day English corpor
1. Introduction
2. Examples from the data
3. Conclusions
Notes
References
8. A critical look at the desktop metaphor 30 years on
1. Introduction
2. The Desktop Metaphor as an interface
3. From the command prompt to the virtual desktop
4. Summary
Notes
References
9. Pragglejaz in practice
1. Introduction
2. Demonstration
3. More about demarcating lexical units
4. More about contextual meanings and basic meanings
5. The role of etymology: Diachronic versus synchronic approaches to meanings
6. More about distinctness and similarity
7. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
10. Mapping principles for conceptual metaphors
1. Introduction
2. The Conceptual Mapping Model
3. Psycholinguistic experiments
4. Off-line acceptability ratings of metaphors
5. Off-line interpretability ratings on metaphors
6. On-line acceptability decision experiment
7. On-line interpretability ratings of metaphors
8. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
11. Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings
1. Introduction
2. Domains
3. Correspondence approaches and map-transcending entities
4. Invariant transfers
5. Invariant mappings and systematicity
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
12. Attitude, style and context: Matching cognitive and aesthetic accounts of poetic interpretation
1. Introduction
2. Diagnosing the poetic
3. Interpretation in practice: Extending the cognitivist approach
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
13. A genre approach to imagery in winespeak
1. Introduction
2. The research context: The TN genre
3. Identifying figurative schemas in TNs
4. Classifying the figurative language in the TNs
5. Interpreting the figurative language in TNs
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Section 3. The function of metaphor in discourse
14. Wot no similes? The curious absence of simile in university lectures
1. Introduction
2. Simile and metaphorical simile
3. Identifying similes in discourse
4. What similes do
5. Four university lectures
6. Findings
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
References
15. Metaphor marking and metaphor typological and functional ranges in business periodicals
1. Introduction
2. The framework of study
3. Corpus and methodology
4. Results
5. Conclusions
References
16. Critical analysis of creative metaphors in political speeches
1. Introduction
2. "Creative" and "creativity"
3. Creativity and political speeches
4. The gravitational centre of the European Integration
5. Metaphor and genres
6. Creative mappings
7. A critical analysis of creative metaphors
References
17. Metaphor in physical-and-speech action expressions
Background
Physical-and-speech action expressions: (1) sit down and talk
Physical-and-speech action expressions: (2) turn round and say
Other physical-and-speech action verbs in the focus group data
Conclusion
Notes
References
Appendix
18. The evaluative properties of metaphors
Introduction
Mechanisms through which metaphors evaluate
Analysing metaphors using corpora
Multiword figurative expressions
Conclusion
References
Index of names
Index of terms
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