Barbara Dancygier: Figurative Language

Cover: 9780521184731 | Figurative Language | Barbara Dancygier (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2014

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Beschreibung

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. ¿ Provides definitions of major concepts ¿ Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity ¿ Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres ¿ Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language ¿ Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data

Über den Autor

Barbara Dancygier is Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. The basics of metaphor; 3. Metaphoric structure: levels and relations; 4. Mental spaces and blending; 5. Metonymy; 6. Grammatical constructions and figurative meaning; 7. The cross-linguistic study of metaphor; 8. Figurative language in discourse; 9. Concluding remarks.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft , Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521184731
ISBN-10:	0521184738
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dancygier, Barbara Sweetser, Eve
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Barbara Dancygier (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.03.2014
Gewicht:	0,455 kg