Tag: Metaphor

Free Download Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
by Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9027211418 | 369 Pages | True PDF | 22 MB

Free Download Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, Antonio Barcelona, "Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar"
English | 2009 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 9027223793 | PDF | 4,4 mb
Figurative language has been regarded traditionally as situated outside the realm of grammar. However, with the advent of Cognitive Linguistics, metonymy and metaphor are now recognized as being not only ornamental rhetorical tropes but fundamental figures of thought that shape, to a considerable extent, the conceptual structure of languages. The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their imprints on lexicogrammatical structure. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings and forms. The volume should be of interest to scholars and students in cognitive and functional linguistics, in particular, conceptual metonymy and metaphor theory, cognitive typology, and pragmatics.

Free Download Jennifer C. Cook, "Machine and Metaphor: The Ethics of Language in American Realism"
English | 2006 | pages: 172 | ISBN: 0415978351 | PDF | 1,0 mb
American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book demonstrates that many realist writers, from Mark Twain to Stephen Crane, Charles W. Chesnutt to Edith Wharton, felt a great deal of anxiety about the advent of new technologies – precisely at the crucial intersection of ethics and language. For these writers, the communication revolution was a troubling phenomenon, not only because of the ways in which the new machines had changed and increased the circulation of language but, more pointedly, because of the ways in which language itself had effectively become a machine: a vehicle perpetuating some of society’s most pernicious clichés and stereotypes – particularly stereotypes of race – in unthinking iteration. This work takes a close look at how the realists tried to forge an ethical position between the two poles of science and sentimentality, attempting to create an alternative mode of speech that, avoiding the trap of codifying iteration, could enable ethical action.

Free Download Jonathan Picken, "Literature, Metaphor and the Foreign Language Learner"
English | 2007 | pages: 189 | ISBN: 023050695X, 1349353264 | PDF | 0,5 mb
Theory in reader-response and stylistics traditions supports L2 work with literature as it is valued by students and helps develop communicative and critical language skills. The author uses insights from empirical research to evaluate current teaching practices against this background, highlighting readers’ responses to metaphor as a test case.

Free Download R. Trim, "Metaphor and the Historical Evolution of Conceptual Mapping"
English | ISBN: 0230304826 | 2011 | 245 pages | EPUB | 976 KB
An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular expressions.

Free Download Donna L. Sadler, "The Nun’s Cell as Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Covent Life: Study of the Models of Nuns’ Cells from the Collection of"
English | ISBN: 2503601936 | 2023 | 242 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, French nuns from various orders created miniature simulacra of the cells in which they slept, studied, and performed their devotions. Each diorama contains an effigy of the nun, a prie-Dieu, devotional objects such as a crucifix, handiwork, and artifacts to foster study and contemplation. This book examines the lives of the brides of Christ as depicted in these dioramas, proposing that the material objects found in the chambers trace the contours of the collective and individual identities of the nuns who created these cells. Viewed as a type of memoir, the cells furnish the sisters a stage upon which to rehearse the meaning of their lives. The dioramas create a tension between the private and public presentations of the self, between verisimilitude and self-fashioning, and between reality and representation. The book contextualizes the miniature cells within the larger discourse of gender, identity, self-representation, monastic devotion, and the power wielded by the aesthetics of scale.

Free Download Ted Cohen, "Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor "
English | ISBN: 0691154465 | 2012 | 104 pages | AZW3 | 285 KB
In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity-as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation-and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor. To be able to see oneself as someone else, whether the someone else is a real person or a fictional character, is to exercise the ability to deal with metaphor and other figurative language. The underlying faculty, Cohen argues, is the same-simply the ability to think of one thing as another when it plainly is not.

Free Download Inesa Šeškauskienė, "Metaphor in Legal Discourse"
English | ISBN: 1527578496 | 2022 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from six different countries to investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon accessible through language and, more specifically, through actual linguistic contexts of use.

Free Download Zoltan Kovecses, "Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0195374940 | 2010 | 375 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters-on ‘metaphors in discourse’ and ‘metaphor and emotion’ -along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.

Free Download Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach By Mara Sophia Zanotto (ed.), Lynne Cameron (ed.), Marilda C. Cavalcanti (ed.)
2008 | 315 Pages | ISBN: 9027254176 | PDF | 4 MB
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.