Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory - Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive metaphor theory and have developed independently of it. While the cognitive approach has become the leading paradigm in the English speaking world, elsewhere (in Europe) rhetorical, semantic, and logical models have remained in use and continue to be elaborated. These models have so far had little international exposure. Their inclusion in this study is meant to provide a balance to the cognitive paradigm and to open up a possible discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of cognitive metaphor theory for the analysis of literary texts. The second aim of the collection is to illustrate a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts. And, the third aim of the study is to provide an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.

List of contents

I. Indigenous Non-Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor Hans Georg Coenen Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska Ina Habermann Bo Pettersson Benjamin Biebuyck & Gunther Martens Tamar Yacobi II. Cognitive Metaphor Theory and Literary Analysis Michael Kimmel John Douthwaite Ralph Müller Yanna Popova Beatrix Busse III. Moving into Genre, Ideology, and Film Michael Sinding Andrew Goatly Charles Forceville

About the author

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Summary

In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume presents recent approaches to metaphor, illustrates a range of successful applications of the new cognitive models to literary texts, and provides an assessment of cognitive metaphor theory from a literary point of view.

Product details

• Authors: Monika Fludernik, Monika (EDT) Fludernik, Monika (University of Freiburg Fludernik
• Assisted by: Michael Burke (Editor), Monika Fludernik (Editor), Fludernik Monika (Editor), Michael Burke (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415854122
• ISBN: 978-0-415-85412-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics; Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics; Routledge Studies in Rhetoric
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literary studies: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics