Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language
University of Queensland
Frames and constructions in metaphoric language shows how linguistic metaphor piggybacks on certain patterns of constructional meaning that have already been identified and studied in non-metaphoric language. Recognition of these shared semantic structures, and comparison of their roles in metaphoric and non-metaphoric constructions, make it possible to apply findings from Frame Semantics, Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar to understand how conceptual metaphor surfaces in language.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 14]
2013.
vii, 184 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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9789027204363
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90.00
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135.00
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9789027272409
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Metaphoric language and metaphoric thought
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1–16
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Chapter 2. Frames in metaphor and meaning
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17–34
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Chapter 3. Frames and lexical choice in metaphor
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35–48
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Chapter 4. Frames in metonymic inferencing
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49–62
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Chapter 5. Two types of adjective construction in metaphor
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63–86
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Chapter 6. Argument structure constructions in metaphor
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87–114
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Chapter 7. Metaphoric preposition phrases and closed-class items
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115–130
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Chapter 8. Repeated domain evocation and xyz constructions
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131–148
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Chapter 9. Metaphoric constructions beyond the clause
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149–166
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Chapter 10. Conclusion
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167–172
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References
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173–178
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Primary sources
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179–180
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Index of constructions
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181–182
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Index
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183–184
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Quotes
“Within cognitive linguistics, there is a strong grammatical component that studies the meaning and structure of language, but cognitive grammarians have not paid a great deal of attention to metaphor. Cognitive linguistics also has a strong component that studies metaphors, but conceptual metaphor theorists have not paid a great deal of attention to grammatical aspects of metaphorical meaning. In her book, Karen Sullivan provides a wonderful combination of the two efforts. The result is a new and convincing theory of the interplay between metaphorical meaning and grammatical structure. This is a substantial contribution to the field of cognitive linguistics.”
Zoltán Kövecses, Professor in the Department of American Studies of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, (author of Metaphor: A Practical Introduction, among other works)
“Karen Sullivan has written a great book. The problem she solved is deep: In a sentence that is understood via conceptual metaphor, how can you tell which words fit the metaphoric source, and which fit the metaphoric target? Frames and Constructions in Metaphoric Language explains, for example, why spiritual wealth is about the richness of spirit, while blood-stained wealth is about ill-gotten wealth. The solution comes from integrating independent results in cognitive linguistics. How much more elegant can you get?”
George Lakoff, Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
“This is a major advance in the study of metaphor, and broadly useful to those interested in literary metaphor, grammatical analysis, and the place of metaphor in thought. Sullivan's close-up corpus-based analyses dig into what are sometimes metaphor analysts' "old favorite" examples, and let us see the the fine-grained texture of the relationships between form and meaning. If you already recognized the inseparability of metaphoric language and thought from the literal, you'll gain a newly solid basis for that recognition from this book.”
Eve Sweetser, Professor of Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
Linguistics
BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2012042208