Literature, metaphor, and the foreign language learner

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

023050695X

Collation

xiii, 174 p. ; 23 cm.

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Call Number

807.1 PIC l

Mind, metaphor and language teaching

Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching. After summarizing the cognitive basis of metaphor and other figures of speech, it looks at how this knowledge can inform classroom practice. Finally, it sets out how…

Metaphor networks : the comparative evolution of figurative language

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ISBN/ISSN

9780230507517

Collation

xv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Call Number

415 TRI m

The making of meaning: Metaphors, models, and maxism for writing teachers

Edition

1st ed.

ISBN/ISSN

0-86709-003-0

Collation

Ed.1 Cet.1; x, 208p.; 21cm.

Series Title

1st ed.

Call Number

412 BER m

The Rule of Metaphor: The creation of meaning in language

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ISBN/ISSN

0415312809

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418.007 RIC r

I never metaphor I didn't like: a comprehensive compilation of history's grea…

Mardy Grothe.

Metaphor and corpus linguistics

Alice Deignan.

Finding metaphor in grammar and usage: a methodological analysis of theory an…

Gerard J. Steen.

Creative compounding in English : The semantics of metaphorical and metonymi…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9027223734

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Series Title

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428.1 REK c

Objects of metaphor

The only reasonable response to the philosophical literature on metaphor is one of despair. This is not because what one finds there is bad; far from it. Though I don't think that anyone is quite right about metaphor, very few writers are simply wrong. Nor is the despair grounded on the sheer volume of the literature and its almost exponential increase in recent years. To be sure, if you tho…