Metaphor in Specialist Discourse

Editors

J. Berenike Herrmann | Göttingen University, Germany

Tony Berber Sardinha | Sao Paulo Catholic University, Brazil

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Metaphor in Specialist Discourse presents multiple perspectives on metaphor use in specialist and popularized discourse contexts. Using genre and register as starting parameters for deeper exploration, and pushing the boundaries further to open up new areas and possibilities, ten independent articles investigate metaphor use across a range of specialist domains of discourse, such as biology research articles, psychological counseling, soccer commentaries, workfloor communication, and penal policy documents. Framed by two theoretical chapters, the book is a contribution to the study of metaphor use in distinct discourse settings that will be of value to linguists and metaphor scholars of different persuasions, graduate students of linguistics and related disciplines, and practitioners of specialized areas with an interest in (verbal or gestural) language use in their areas of expertise. It shows that aspects of discourse variation are the beginning of, not an afterthought to, accurate empirical metaphor studies.

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 4] 2015. xii, 319 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 December 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.4

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x

Preface

Lynne Cameron | pp. xi–xii

Introduction

Metaphor in specialist discourse

J. Berenike Herrmann and Tony Berber Sardinha | pp. 3–14

Metaphor Variation in Specialist Discourse

Tony Berber Sardinha | pp. 17–52

Metaphors in psychology genres: Counseling vs. academic lectures

Anke Beger | pp. 53–76

Metaphor in Specific Contexts

Payback and punishment: Metaphors in Scottish penal policy

Alice Deignan | pp. 79–100

They have to die for the goals: WAR metaphors in English and German football radio commentary

Elmar J. Thalhammer | pp. 101–130

The production line as a context for low metaphoricity: Exploring links between gestures, iconicity, and artefacts on a factory shop floor

Simon Harrison | pp. 131–160

Metaphor in Science Writing

High on metaphor, low on simile? An examination of metaphor type in sub-registers of academic prose

J. Berenike Herrmann | pp. 163–190

A mere metaphor? Framings of the concept of metaphor in biological specialist communication

Sanne Knudsen | pp. 191–214

Dynamical systems metaphors

Thomas H. Smith | pp. 215–242

Metaphor and Popularization

Metaphor, news discourse and knowledge

Julia T. Williams Camus | pp. 245–270

Metaphor as tools of enrolment in the policy process: A case study exploration of the policy press release genre in regards to the Alberta SuperNet

Amanda Mary Williams | pp. 271–296

Conclusion

Metaphor in specialist discourse: Insights and implications for metaphor studies and beyond

Jeannette Littlemore | pp. 299–314

Index | pp. 315–319

“ [M]etaphor in specialist discourse presents exciting insights exploring different aspects of metaphor in a variety of specialist discourse including written and spoken, formal and informal, academic and non-academic. One of the strengths of the volume, according to Littlemore (p. 299) is that all the authors have used real-life data to explore the roles played by metaphors in everyday language and other forms of communication.”

Leila Khabbazi-Oskouei, University of East Anglia, on Linguist List 28.2944 (July 2017)

“[T]he volume makes a worthwhile theoretical and methodological contribution to specialist discourse research and offers readers insights into how to achieve communication successfully and efficiently in specific contexts.”

Ya Sun, School of International Studies, University of International Business and Economics, P.R. China, Discourse Studies 19(6) (2017)

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