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Leezenberg, Michiel. 2001. Contexts of Metaphor: Semantic and Conceptual Aspects of Figurative Language Interpretation. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 332 pp.

Abstract

This study presents an approach to metaphor that systematically takes contextual factors into account. It analyses how metaphors both depend on, and change, the context in which they are uttered, and specifically, how metaphorical interpretation involves the articulation of asserted, implied and presupposed material. It supplements this semantic analysis with a practice-based account of metaphor at the conceptual level, which stresses the role of sociocultural factors in concept formation. (Publisher Book Description) (For table of Contents, see Komendzinski, Thomas 2002: 463-464)