Metaphor and the Social World

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2012)

2012. iii, 129 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.2.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’ Jonathan Charteris-Black	1–21
The life of the green shoots metaphor in the Spanish media Maria Dolores Porto	22–40
A journey towards employment: Metaphorical representations of social welfare in New Zealand Jay M. Woodhams	41–60
The Greek state and the plaster cast: From the Greek military junta of 21 April 1967 to the IMF and EU’s rescue mechanism Villy Tsakona	61–86
The wolf — an evil and ever-hungry beast or a nasty thief? Conventional Inari Saami metaphors and widespread idioms in contrast Anna Idström and Elisabeth Piirainen	87–113
Forum
How linguists manipulate metaphors Tina Krennmayr	115–120
Book Review
Review of Philip (2011): Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language Reviewed by Alena V. Anishchanka and Weiwei Zhang	121–129

Subjects

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Discourse studies

Cognitive linguistics