Washing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 23] 2007. xvii, 431 pp.
Andrew Goatly
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrew Goatly plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Semantics
Articles
2021 Chapter 2. Thematic adverbial adjuncts of place and direction and their relationship to conceptual metaphor in A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad Language in Place: Stylistic perspectives on landscape, place and environment, Virdis, Daniela Francesca, Elisabetta Zurru and Ernestine Lahey (eds.), pp. 17–44 | Chapter
Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), in discussing the textual metafunction of grammar, identifies any sentence element other than Subject in initial position in declarative clauses as “marked Theme”. Previous research analysed the use of marked Theme in A. E. Housman’s poem sequence A Shropshire… read more
2017 Chapter 7. The poems of Edward Thomas: A case study in ecostylistics The Stylistics of Landscapes, the Landscapes of Stylistics, Douthwaite, John, Daniela Francesca Virdis and Elisabetta Zurru (eds.), pp. 95–122 | Chapter
As an ecostylistics project locating Edward Thomas within the poetic tradition of Romantic Ecology, this chapter uses Systemic Functional Grammar to analyse nature-referring noun phrases in his Collected Poems. Nature is represented as active, the categories WATER, WEATHER, MONTHS/SEASONS,… read more
1994 Register and the redemption of relevance theory: The case of metaphor Pragmatics 4:2, pp. 139–181 | Article
The argument I wish to advance in this paper is that Gricean theory (Grice 1968, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1981) and, in particular, the potentially useful relevance theory which developed from it (Sperber & Wilson 1986), are flawed through their failure to consider cultural and social context; but that… read more