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Metaphor and Discourse

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Musolff

    1. University of Durham, UK

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  2. Jörg Zinken

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding

    1. A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding

      • Jörg Zinken, Andreas Musolff
      Pages 1-8

  3. Metaphor in Discourse: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Metaphor, Culture, and Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence

      • Zoltán Kövecses
      Pages 11-24

    3. Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy

      • Gerard Steen
      Pages 25-39

    4. Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending

      • Paul Chilton
      Pages 40-58

    5. Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor

      • Christ’l De Landtsheer
      Pages 59-78

    6. Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence

      • John Barnden
      Pages 79-94

  4. Metaphors in Contemporary Public Discourses: Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Metaphor and Political Communication

      • Jonathan Charteris-Black
      Pages 97-115

    3. Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse

      • Veronika Koller
      Pages 116-134

    4. How Business Press Headlines Get Their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor

      • Michael White, Honesto Herrera
      Pages 135-152

    5. MRSA — Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts

      • Brigitte Nerlich, Nelya Koteyko
      Pages 153-169

  6. Commentary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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About this book

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

Reviews

"Through contributions by scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and politics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary, contextualized and synchronic-diachronic combined exploration of various aspects of metaphor in naturally occurring discourses... [It] is an excellent contribution for metaphor scholars, discourse analysts, and other researchers in relevant fields." - Discourse Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Durham, UK

    Andreas Musolff

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Jörg Zinken

About the editors

KATHRYN BANKS is Lecturer in French, Durham University, UK JOHN BARNDEN is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Birmingham, UK JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Professor of Linguistics, University of West of England, UK PAUL CHILTON is Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK DAVID COWLING is Professor of French, Durham University, UK CHRIST'L DE LANDTSHEER is Professor of Communication Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium ROSLYN FRANK is Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, USA RAYMOND W. GIBBS is Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa-Cruz, USA HONESTO HERRERA-SOLER is Associate Professor of English, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empreariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain VERONIKA KOLLER is Lecturer in English Language, Lancaster University, UK NELYA KOTEYKO is a Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES is Professor of Linguistics, Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary JULIA E. LONERGAN, University of California, Santa-Cruz, USA BRIGITTE NERLICH is Professor of Science, Language and Society, University of Nottingham, UK GERARD STEEN work in the Department of Language and Communication at VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands MICHAEL WHITE is Professor of English, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain JEFFREY ZAVADIL, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Metaphor and Discourse

  • Editors: Andreas Musolff, Jörg Zinken

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594647

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53730-9Published: 26 March 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53998-4Published: 26 March 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59464-7Published: 26 March 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 269

  • Topics: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics

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