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Publication details [#25730]

Freeman, Donald C. 1995. "Catch[ing] the nearest way": Macbeth and cognitive metaphor. Journal of Pragmatics 24 (6) : 689–708.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | cognitive linguistics | metaphor | scheme

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study of the dramatic and critical language of and about MACBETH is based on the cognitive metaphor approach which offers independently motivated analyses. The 'container' and 'path' schemata are shown to dominate the salient metaphors of both the play and the critics.