基本説明
アリストテレスからジョージ・レイコフ、マーク・ジョンソンまで、哲学者、言語学者から、文芸理論家、認知心理学者まで、古今にわたる学際的な重要論考を精選収録するワンストップ・レファレンス。現在のメタファー研究を牽引する編者による新序文を収録。
Full Description
With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge's Critical Concepts in Linguistics series.
Metaphor and Figurative Language is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential library purchase and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital reference work and research tool.
Contents
Volume I: Theoretical issues Part 1: Foundations Part 2: Philosophy of Metaphor Part 3: Beyond Similarity and Class Inclusion Part 4: Conceptual Metaphor Part 5: Blending Theory Part 6: Relevance Theory Part 7: Metaphor and Context Volume II: Typology of Figurative Language Part 8: Metaphor and Simile Part 9: Metonymy Part 10: Pictorial Metaphor Part 11: Conventional Metaphors and Idioms Part 12: Time and Space Part 13: Embodied Metaphor Volume III: Literary and Cross-cultural Perspectives Part 14: Metaphor in Literary Theory Part 15: Case Studies Part 16: Cross-cultural Perspectives Volume IV: Cognition and Metaphor Part 17: Processing Part 18: Degrees of Salience Part 19: Is Metaphor Unique? Part 20: Aptness Part 21: Developmental Aspects Volume V: Brain and Metaphor Part 22: Is the Right Hemisphere Uniquely Involved in Metaphor Comprehension? Part 23: Effects of Degree of Salience Part 24: Clinical Populations Part 25: The Effect of Task Part 26: Methodologies Volume VI: Empirical Analysis of Figurative Language Part 27: Corpus-Based Analyses Part 28: Applied Metaphor Studies Part 29: Computational Approaches
