Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

List of contents

1. A brief outline of 'standard' conceptual metaphor theory and some outstanding issues; 2. The abstract understood figuratively, the concrete understood literally, but the concrete understood figuratively?; 3. Direct or indirect emergence?; 4. Domain, schema, frame or space?; 5. Conceptual or contextual?; 6. Offline or online?; 7. The shape of an extended view of conceptual metaphor theory; 8. By way of conclusion: responses to the five questions.

About the author

Zoltán Kövecses is Emeritus Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is an associate editor of Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor and Symbol.

Summary

Updating the already well-established conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this book will appeal to researchers in a range of disciplines. It explains the implications of extended conceptual metaphor theory, a new approach to the study of metaphor, for areas as diverse as metaphorical cognition, methodology, communication, perceptual modality, and literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: Zoltan (Eoetvoes Lorand University Koevecses, Zoltan (Eotvos Lorand University Budapes Kovecses, Zoltan (Eotvos Lorand University Budapest) Kovecses, Zoltán Kövecses
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108490870
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49087-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc