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Main Authors: Dancygier, Barbara 1952- (Author), Sweetser, Eve 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Series:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
Subjects:
Figures of speech / Study and teaching
Metaphor / Study and teaching
Languages, Modern / Study and teaching
Bildersprache
Lehrbuch
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XV, 242 S. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9781107005952
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adam_text Contents List of figures page xii List of tables xiii Acknowledgements xiv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Reassessing figurative language 1 1.2 Metaphor: What does figurative mean? 3 1.3 Metonymy 4 1.4 Broadening our understanding of figurative: blending and figurative grammar 6 1.5 Figurative language, cognition, and culture 7 1.6 The uses of figurative language 9 1.7 The basic tool-kit: categories, frames, and mental spaces 11 1.8 The road ahead 12 2 The basics of metaphor 13 2.1 The concept of a mapping 13 2.2 Frames and domains 17 2.3 How mappings are grounded in experience 21 2.3.1 Image schemata and experiential correlations 22 2.3.2 Primary Metaphors, conflation, and mind as body mappings 25 2.3.3 Two-directional metaphors 30 2.3.4 Metaphoric meaning change 31 2.4 Conventional or creative? 34 2.5 Experimental support for Cognitive Metaphor Theory 36 2.6 What is transferred between source and target? 38 2.7 Conclusions 41 2.8 Summary 41 3 Metaphoric structure: levels and relations 43 3.1 Inheritance and compositional relations between metaphors 43 3.2 Levels of complexity 49 3.3 The experiential bases of complex mappings 53 3.4 Image metaphors 59 3.5 Constraints on source—target relationships — is it about concrete and abstract? 62 3.5.1 Objectification and personification 62 3.5.2 Making the abstract concrete 64 3.5.3 Metaphor families 67 3.6 Conclusions: concrete and abstract, generic and specific 69 3.7 Summary 71 4 Mental spaces and blending 73 4.1 Why we need to talk about more structure than two domains: metaphor as blending 73 4.2 The relationship of mental spaces to frames 76 43 Spaces and frames: types and relations 78 4.4 Blending processes and types of blends 82 4.4.1 How to build a blend 82 4.4.2 Types of blends 87 4.4.3 A complex multiscope example 94 4.5 Conclusions 97 4.6 Summary 98 5 Metonymy 100 5.1 Part— whole frame metonymy, framing, and objectifi cation 102 5.2 Metonymy and metaphor 103 5.3 Metonymie polysemy and meaning change 106 5.4 Linguistic-form metonymies 110 5.5 Frame metonymy and asymmetry in language and cognition 113 5.6 Cognitive bases for categorial metonymy 115 5.7 The contribution of metonymy to Mental Space building and blending 117 5.8 Metonymy in visual blending 122 5.9 Conclusions 123 5.10 Summary 125 6 Grammatical constructions and figurative meaning 127 6.1 Introduction 127 6.2 Grammar and meaning 129 6.3 Metaphoric uses of constructions 132 6.4 Grammatical asymmetry and source-target asymmetry 133 6.5 Simile as a mapping and a construction 137 6.5.1 Characterization of simile 138 6.5.2 Narrow-scope similes 142 6.5.3 Broad-scope similes 145 6.6 Alternative spaces, simile, and metaphor 148 6.7 Nominal-Modification Constructions and frame metonymy 151 6.7.1 XYZ Constructions 151 6.7.2 Nominal modification 153 6.7.3 Proper names: framing and reference 156 6.7.4 Genitives and experiential viewpoint 158 6.7.5 Constructional compositionality 159 6.8 Constructions and the nature of figurative meaning 159 6.9 Summary 161 7 The crosslinguistic study of metaphor 162 7.1 Introduction: the crosscultural comparison of language and cognitive patterns 162 7.2 Examining linguistic variation and universais 163 7.3 Crosslinguistic contrasts in metaphor — and crosslinguistic universais? 165 7.4 Spatial metaphors for time: the time is relative motion family 168 7.5 Beyond time is relative motion 174 7.6 Gesture and temporal metaphors 178 7.7 Vi su al -gestural languages and figurative usage 179 7.8 Conclusions 181 7.9 Summary 182 8 Figurative language in discourse 183 8.1 Metaphor and viewpoint: the discourse of illness and addiction 184 8.1.1 The Boundary schema: two construais of illness 184 8.1.2 Metaphor and irony 185 8.1.3 Viewpointed experience and metaphor: an addiction narrative 187 8.2 Argumentation and linguistic choices 188 8.2.1 Source-of-Target metaphors 188 8.2.2 Compression as an argumentation strategy 190 8.2.3 Frames and grammar in political speeches 191 8.3 Extended metonymy and viewpoint 194 8.4 Literature and figurative meaning 196 8.4.1 Minimalism and maximalism in poetry 196 8.4.2 Narrative and blending 201 8.5 The discourse of science 202 8.5.1 Modeling the atom and scientific creativity 203 8.5.2 The status of science metaphors 205 8.6 Religious metaphor 208 8.7 Conclusions 211 8.8 Summary 212 9 Concluding remarks 213 9.1 Theoretical postulates 213 9.1.1 Levels of schematici ty and levels of interpretation 214 9.1.2 Viewpoint and experience 216 9.1.3 Analyzing discourse 217 9.1.4 The role of experimental work 218 9.2 Linguistic issues 219 References 222 Further reading 234 Index 236 Figurative Language This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual under¬ pinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data
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