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Informationen zum Autor Beate Hampe is Professor of Language and its Structure at Universität Erfurt, Germany. She is author of Superlative Verbs (2002) and the editor of From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in Cognitive Linguistics (2005). Klappentext This book brings together leading metaphor researchers from a number of disciplines to unite the field of metaphor theory. Zusammenfassung Metaphor theory has recently debated whether metaphor is 'embodied' or 'discursive'. To resolve the dispute! this book brings together leading metaphor researchers from a number of disciplines. It presents arguments and empirical evidence showing that metaphor is ultimately both and that metaphor theory can only profit from considering multiple perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Embodiment and discourse Beate Hampe; Part I. Metaphor in Cognition: 2. Sources and targets in Primary Metaphor Theory Joseph E. Grady and Giorgio A. Ascoli; 3. The hierarchical structure of mental metaphors Daniel Casasanto; 4. Metaphorical directionality Yeshayahu Shen and Roy Porat; 5. Body-schema and body-image in metaphorical cognition Valentina Cuccio; 6. Primary metaphors are both cultural and embodied Bodo Winter and Teenie Matlock; Part II. More Than Metaphor: 7. Source actions ground metaphor via metonymy Irene Mittelberg and Gina Joue; 8. Metaphor and other cognitive operations in interaction Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez; 9. On the role of embodied cognition in the understanding and use of metonymy Jeannette Littlemore; Part III. Metaphor in Discourse: 10. The cancer card Elena Semino and Zsófia Demjén; 11. Mappings and narrative in figurative communication Alice Deignan; 12. Contextual activation of story simulation in metaphor comprehension L. David Ritchie; 13. From image schema to metaphor in discourse Charles J. Forceville; 14. Doing metaphor Thomas W. Jensen; Part IV. Salient Metaphor: 15. Attention to metaphor Gerard J. Steen; 16. Waking Metaphors Cornelia Müller; Epilogue. The embodied and discourse views of metaphor Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr....
