Where Metaphors Come From - Reconsidering Context in Metaphor

Zusatztext [Kövecses] provides good examples from a variety of contextual and cultural situations and includes several chapters on the cognitive aspects of linguistic humor. Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Zoltan (Etvs Lorand University) Koevecses, Zoltan Kovecses, Zoltán Kövecses, Zoltan Kvecses, Zoltan Kvvecses
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9780190224868
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022486-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Psycholinguistics, Language teaching theory and methods, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Cognitivism, cognitive theory, Applied linguistics for ELT, LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language