Drawing Attention to Metaphor

Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

Editors

Camilla Di Biase-Dyson | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Markus Egg | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.

[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. v, 265 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.5

Table of Contents

Drawing attention to metaphor: An introduction to the debate

Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg | pp. 1–14

The role of co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor

W. Gudrun Reijnierse, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr and Gerard J. Steen | pp. 15–38

A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language

Camilla Di Biase-Dyson | pp. 39–62

A multimodal perspective on MCA: Cues of (possible) metacommunicative awareness

Alan Cienki | pp. 63–92

Deliberate use of metaphor and metonymy as mnemonic devices for identification in a non-linguistic modality: The case of Deir el-Medina (Egypt)

Kyra van der Moezel | pp. 93–128

Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness

Chiara Ferella | pp. 129–158

“Entering the house of Hades”: The formulaic language for metaphors of death and the question of deliberateness in Early Greek poetry

Fabian Horn | pp. 159–188

In search of deliberateness in Maya glyphic texts

Agnieszka Hamann | pp. 189–206

Is all poetic metaphor deliberate? Exploring the relationship between verbal creativity and deliberateness

Anna Piata | pp. 207–228

To those walking in the footsteps of the faith: Deliberate metaphor in the Pauline epistles

Markus Egg | pp. 229–262

Index | pp. 263–266

“Overall, this volume is a very solid and highly structured text, edited and presented in a clear and systematic manner. Given its innovative and rich content, the book will serve as an excellent reference for scholars and researchers in metaphor studies who seek to keep themselves up to date on the latest developments in the field.”

Ning Ye, Zhejiang Police College, Hangzhou, China, in Journal of Pragmatics 173 (2021)

“Let me highlight [...] how the volume can leave one wondering ‘what’s next?’, which is a very positive after-reading feeling to provoke. There is no doubt that the debates on whether deliberateness can be reliably claimed and what can count as deliberate (only novel metaphors? isolated? contextualised?) will continue in forthcoming conferences and volumes. As such, “Drawing Attention to Metaphor” is undoubtedly a remarkable contribution to this agenda and a must-read for any scholar in need of further examples, texts, languages and/or genres in which deliberateness is found (or not).”

María Muelas-Gil, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, in Metaphor and the Social World 12:2 (2022).

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