Zoltán Kövecses

Where Metaphors Come from

Reconsidering Context in Metaphor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kövecses recasts CMT as a contextual theory of metaphor, expanding and refining it to account for the ways in which many verbal metaphors are tied to context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780190224868
• ISBN-10: 019022486X
• Artikelnr.: 42410165

Autorenporträt

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Metaphor, embodiment, and context
Chapter 2: Meaning making
Chapter 3: The conceptual system
Chapter 4: Contextual factors
Chapter 5: Metaphor and culture
Chapter 6: Context and metaphorical creativity
Chapter 7: Context and poetic metaphor
Chapter 8: The conceptual context of linguistic humor
Chapter 9: Happiness in context
Chapter 10: Metaphor and context
References
Index