The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought

• Other Authors: Gibbs, Raymond W.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Subjects: Metaphor.; Psycholinguistics.; Language and culture.; Nonverbal communication.; PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main them...

Table of Contents:

• The roots of metaphor
• Metaphor understanding
• Metaphor in language and culture
• Metaphor in reasoning and feeling
• Metaphor in nonverbal expression.