Jr. Raymond W. Gibbs

Metaphor Wars

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781107071148
• ISBN-10: 1107071143
• Artikelnr.: 47721294

Autorenporträt

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, pragmatics and figurative language. He is the author of several books, including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding (Cambridge, 1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (Cambridge, 2000), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (Cambridge, 2006), and Interpreting Figurative Meaning (with Herbert L. Colston, Cambridge, 2012). He is also editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (Cambridge, 2008), and editor of the journal Metaphor and Symbol.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What are metaphor wars?
2. Conceptual metaphor analysis
3. Identifying metaphors in language
4. Inferring conceptual metaphors from language
5. Psychology of conceptual metaphors in verbal metaphor use
6. Conceptual metaphors in multimodal experience
7. Conclusion and the future
Endnotes
References
Index.