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	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	15–38
A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language Camilla Di Biase-Dyson	39–62
A multimodal perspective on MCA: Cues of (possible) metacommunicative awareness Alan Cienki	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	93–128
Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness Chiara Ferella	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	159–188
In search of deliberateness in Maya glyphic texts Agnieszka Hamann	189–206
Is all poetic metaphor deliberate?: Exploring the relationship between verbal creativity and deliberateness Anna Piata	207–228
To those walking in the footsteps of the faith: Deliberate metaphor in the Pauline epistles Markus Egg	229–262
Index	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)

Subjects

Linguistics

Pragmatics

Cognition and language

Historical linguistics

Discourse studies

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019056165 | Marc record