Introducing Metaphor
1st Edition
Published on 8. November 2005
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-415-27800-3 (ISBN)
Description
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation. Rosamund Moon and Murray Knowles, draw on a wide selection of material to explore metaphor in relation to text, discourse and society. Linguistic metaphor and literary metaphor are examined across a range of contexts, such as politics, sport and advertising, whilst literary metaphor is demonstrated through authentic extracts from fiction and poetry. A final section covering non-verbal metaphor looks at metaphor in art, cinema and music.
Reviews / Votes
'A valuable and enlightening contribution ... an excellent introductory textbook to metaphor studies, accessible both to people who are being introduced to the study of metaphor for the very first time and to people well-versed in metaphor studies ... this book is strongly recommended ... it is a real contribution to metaphor studies.' - Denis L. Jamet, The LINGUIST List'Knowles and Moon's Introducing Metaphor remains a valuable and enlightening contribution and, above all, an excellent introductory textbook to metaphor studies, accessible both to people who are being introduced to the study of metaphor for the very first time and to people well-versed in metaphor studies, or just to people interested in the cognitive function of metaphors. Overall, this book is strongly to be recommended in so far as it is a real contribution to metaphor studies, but also inasmuch as it helps our understanding of the pervasive role played by the metaphors we live by.' - Denis L. Ramet, Lexis 'A valuable and enlightening contribution ... an excellent introductory textbook to metaphor studies, accessible both to people who are being introduced to the study of metaphor for the very first time and to people well-versed in metaphor studies ... this book is strongly recommended ... it is a real contribution to metaphor studies.' - The Linguist List
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
520 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-27800-3 (9780415278003)
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Persons
Rosamund Moon is a lecturer in English Language in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Her specialist teaching areas are lexis, lexicography, and the history of the language, and she has recently been involved in a research project on metaphor. Her publications mainly concern aspects of lexis, especially phraseology, and lexicography, and they include her book Fixed Expressions and English: A Corpus-based Approach (1998), OUP.
Murray Knowles is a lecturer in English Language and Literature in the department of English, University of Birmingham. His specialist teaching areas are lexis, sociolinguistics, language in literature and children's literature, and they include his book - co-written with Kirsten Malmkjaer - Language and Control in Children's Literature (1996), Routledge.
Murray Knowles is a lecturer in English Language and Literature in the department of English, University of Birmingham. His specialist teaching areas are lexis, sociolinguistics, language in literature and children's literature, and they include his book - co-written with Kirsten Malmkjaer - Language and Control in Children's Literature (1996), Routledge.
Content
Chapter 1 INTRODUCING METAPHOR; Chapter 2 METAPHOR, WORDS, AND MEANINGS; Chapter 3 SYSTEMATIZING METAPHOR; Chapter 4 METONYMY; Chapter 5 UNDERSTANDING METAPHOR; Chapter 6 METAPHOR ACROSS LANGUAGES; Chapter 7 METAPHOR, IDEOLOGY, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT; Chapter 8 LITERARY METAPHOR; Chapter 9 NON-VERBAL METAPHOR; Chapter 10 CODA; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;