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Metaphor in use
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ISBN: 9789027223920 9789027273468 9027273464 128389484X 9781283894845 9027223920 Year: 2012 Volume: 38 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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Metaphoric language is very much the product of human action, and many scholars now claim that metaphor in language arises from metaphors in thought. But the reasons for why we think metaphorically and speak (gesture) in these ways may be rooted in principles of self-organization that describe the existence, and forms, of many other animate and inanimate things, ranging from snowflakes to termite nests. This chapter describes the benefits of looking at metaphor from a self-organizational point of view, known as dynamical systems theory, and suggests how this perspective can solve several long-

Metaphor and thought
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ISBN: 0521405610 0521405475 1139927213 1139173863 9780521405614 9781139173865 9780521405478 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical issues, the volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential fresh ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology, education and artificial intelligence.


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Empirical translation studies : interdisciplinary methodologies explored
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ISBN: 9781781790496 1781790493 Year: 2016 Publisher: Sheffield, UK: Equinox,


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A method for linguistic metaphor identification
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ISBN: 1283059444 9786613059444 9027288151 9789027288158 9027239037 9789027239037 9781283059442 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering one chapter, the method being a development and refinement of the popular MIP procedure presented by the Pragglejaz Group in 2007. The extended version is called MIPVU, as it was developed at VU University Amsterdam. Its application is demonstrated in five case studies addressing metaphor in English news texts, conversations, fiction, and academic texts, and Dutch news texts and conversations. Two methodological chapters follow reporting a series of successful reliability tests and a series of post hoc troubleshooting exercises. The final chapter presents a first empirical analysis of the findings, and shows what this type of methodological attention can mean for research and theory.

Metaphors we live by
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ISBN: 9780226468013 9780226470993 0226468011 0226468003 Year: 2003 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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Dans la métaphore, on voit ordinairement un usage particulier, “ figuratif ”, du langage, propre à la poésie et à la rhétorique. Lakoff et Johnson critiquent ce point de vue ; ils montrent que notre langage tout entier, dans son usage le plus quotidien et terre à terre, est traversé par la métaphore. Il y a des aspects fondamentaux de notre expérience dont nous ne pouvons pas ne pas parler de façon métaphorique, tout simplement parce que les concepts au moyen desquels nous appréhendons ces aspects de l’expérience sont d’emblée métaphoriques. Il y a métaphore, selon Lakoff et Johnson, lorsque nous appréhendons quelque chose – un aspect de la réalité – en termes d’autre chose. L’étude minutieuse de notre langage quotidien révèle que nous traitons le temps sur le modèle de l’espace, la discussion sur le modèle de la guerre, etc. Ces métaphores (largement culturelles) ne sont pas de simples façons de parler : elles sont constitutives de notre pensée, de notre expérience du monde, et informent ce que nous appelons la “ réalité ”.


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The spatial language of time
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ISBN: 9789027223968 9789027270658 9027270651 1306705894 9781306705899 9027223963 Year: 2014 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia

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The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific

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