Metaphor and Communication
Editors
This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that differentiate it from its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? And how could these specific properties of communication change our understanding of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? The authors of the papers collected in this volume offer answers to these questions that raise new interests in metaphor and communication.
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view?Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas
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part i . The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor
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Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparisonJohn Barnden
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Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological basesIrene Ronga
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Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different semantic fieldsSandra Handl
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Time is money – everywhere? Analysing time metaphors across varieties of EnglishSimone Mueller
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Metaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional modelsMarianna Bolognesi
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Towards a model of metaphorical understandingBipin Indurkhya
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On the role of perceptual features in metaphor comprehensionAmitash Ojha and Bipin Indurkhya
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part ii . The communicative dimension of metaphor
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Adventures of a metaphor: Apian imagery in the history of political thoughtGiovanni Damele
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Moral disgust at its best: The important role of low-level mappings and structural parallelism in political disgust and disease metaphorsElisabeth Wehling
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“The Ultimate Spinner”: Metaphors of evil in Hillary R. Clinton’s media coverageMichela Giordano
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Blending metaphors and arguments in advertisingSabrina Mazzali-Lurati and Chiara Pollaroli
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Metaphors and online learningM. Beatrice Ligorio, Marianna Iodice and Stefania Manca
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Metaphor in sign language poetryRachel Sutton-Spence
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Metaphor and the concept of sound in contemporary musicEwa Schreiber
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Index
“The essays collected in Metaphor and Communication, edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas, successfully take up the challenge to merge a cognitive-linguistic and a communicative perspective on metaphor offering an up-to-date view about how metaphor works and the role of this trope in communication in domains that span from social communication to music, from educational settings to advertising, from politics to marketing, to mention only a few. At the same time, the volume offers a state-of-the-art perspective on metaphor studies in linguistics, psychology and literary studies. An important book that further unveils the structure and roles of metaphor, the dreamwork of language (as Donald Davidson defined it).”
Cristina Cacciari, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
“This volume brings together a wide-ranging set of papers, many of which break new ground in metaphor studies. There is an excellent balance of theoretical and applied papers meaning that the volume will appeal to both researchers and students.”
Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
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Heinemann, Sabine
2022. The Conceptualisation of EUROPE in the Italian Press since the Early 20th Century. In On the Discursive Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Europe [Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics, ], ► pp. 47 ff.
Indurkhya, Bipin & Amitash Ojha
2017. Interpreting Visual Metaphors: Asymmetry and Reversibility. Poetics Today 38:1 ► pp. 93 ff.
Reijnierse, W. Gudrun, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr & Gerard J. Steen
2019. Metaphor in communication: the distribution of potentially deliberate metaphor across register and word class. Corpora 14:3 ► pp. 301 ff.
Scibetta, Andrea
2016. Chinese University Students’ Development of Pragmatic Skills in L2 Italian: A Corpus-Based Study. In Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2016 [Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, ], ► pp. 243 ff.
Soares da Silva, Augusto
2021. Introduction. Figurative language. In Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage [Figurative Thought and Language, 11], ► pp. 1 ff.
Vereza, Solange
2021. The fabric of metaphor in discourse. In Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage [Figurative Thought and Language, 11], ► pp. 339 ff.
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General