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Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account

Researching Metaphors: Towards a Comprehensive Account

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Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1032025875
ISBN13: 9781032025872
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 26 2024
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the field's focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities afforded by the study of living metaphors.

The volume brings together a diverse range of researchers in the discipline towards critically examining the presuppositions of the cognitive approach. The book shines a light on living metaphors - creative interpretations of conflictual meaning specific to a text or communicative act with their own unique functions - to throw into relief long-held tenets in existing metaphor research. Chapters reflect on the notion that creative metaphors spring from independent sources, not merely from metaphorical concepts, and the subsequent implications for our understanding of the relationship between linguistic forms and conceptual structures and the role of creative metaphors in organizing thought and action. Taken together, the book offers a complementary vision of languages and figures which integrates disparate lines of study within the cognitive paradigm with alternative perspectives for a more comprehensive portrait of metaphors.

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