Brian Lambkin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brian Lambkin plays a role.
Articles
2014 Migration as a metaphor for time: ‘Dealing with’ the past and ‘dealing with’ the future Metaphor and the Social World 4:2, pp. 265–291 | Article
Two previous articles proposed the reframing of metaphors for metaphor and time in terms of migration as a device or tool for promoting public understanding. They addressed the difficulty in the social world of explaining the world of metaphor and the world of time (Lambkin, 2012, 2014). The latter… read more
2014 Migration as a metaphor for time: Past, present and future Metaphor and the Social World 4:2, pp. 245–264 | Article
A previous article about the use of migration as a metaphor was concerned particularly with migration as a metaphor for metaphor (Lambkin, 2012). Here the concern is with migration as a metaphor for time, particularly as a metaphor for accessing the past and the future from the present. Two related… read more
2012 Migration as a metaphor for metaphor Metaphor and the Social World 2:2, pp. 180–200 | Article
This article is concerned with migration as a metaphor for metaphor. Metaphor is generally recognised an essential tool in the promotion of public understanding of difficult subjects and this begs the question of what metaphors are available for promoting the understanding of metaphor itself. A… read more