Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (Google eBook)

Zoltán Kövecses, Réka Benczes, Szilvia Csábi

Oxford University Press, Dec 28, 2009 - 375 pages

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.

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User Review  - Leah Garza - Goodreads

everything is metaphor.

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User Review  - Mahmoud Seifi - Goodreads

clearly explains major tenets of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and some related ideas. maybe best in the field.

Contents

• 1 What Is Metaphor?: 3
• 2 Common Source and Target Domains: 17
• 3 Kinds of Metaphor: 33
• 4 Metaphor in Literature: 49
• 5 Nonlinguistic Realizations of Conceptual Metaphors: 63
• 6 The Basis of Metaphor: 77
• 7 The Partial Nature of Metaphorical Mappings: 91
• 8 Cognitive Models Metaphors and Embodiment: 107
• 9 Metaphorical Entailments: 121
• 10 The Scope of Metaphor: 135
• 11 Metaphor Systems: 149
• Metonymy: 171
• 13 The Universality of Conceptual Metaphors: 195
• 14 Cultural Variation in Metaphor and Metonymy: 215
• 15 Metaphor Metonymy and Idioms: 231
• 16 Metaphor and Metonymy in the Study of Language: 251
• 17 Metaphors and Blends: 267
• 18 Metaphor in Discourse: 285
• 19 How Does All This Hang Together?: 305
• Glossary: 323
• Solutions to Exercises: 331
• Bibliography: 345
• General Index: 365
• Metaphor and Metonymy Index: 369

About the author

Zoltan Kovecses is Professor of Linguistics, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary

Bibliographic information

• Title: Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
• Authors: Zoltán Kövecses, Réka Benczes, Szilvia Csábi
• Contributor: Réka Benczes
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0195374940, 9780195374940
• Length: 375 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Language and culture; Metaphor; Psycholinguistics