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Publication details [#18513]
Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. 1994. The poetics of mind: Figurative thought, language, and understanding. Cambridge University Press. ix + 527 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
ISBN
0 521 41965 4
Annotation
Providing an illuminating panaroma of the whole subject of metaphor studies, including convincing expositions on metaphor, metonymy and irony and 'literal' thought and language, the author endorses the view that our conceptualization of experience is largely metaphorical, both motivating and constraining our creative thought.