Full Description
This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that differentiate it from its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? And how could these specific properties of communication change our understanding of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? The authors of the papers collected in this volume offer answers to these questions that raise new interests in metaphor and communication.
Contents
1. Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view? (by Gola, Elisabetta); 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; 3. Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison (by Barnden, John A.); 4. Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases (by Ronga, Irene); 5. Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different semantic fields (by Handl, Sandra); 6. Time is money - everywhere? Analysing time metaphors across varieties of English (by Mueller, Simone); 7. Metaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models (by Bolognesi, Marianna); 8. Towards a model of metaphorical understanding (by Indurkhya, Bipin); 9. On the role of perceptual features in metaphor comprehension (by Ojha, Amitash); 10. The communicative dimension of metaphor; 11. Adventures of a metaphor: Apian imagery in the history of political thought (by Damele, Giovanni); 12. Moral disgust at its best: The important role of low-level mappings and structural parallelism in political disgust and disease metaphors (by Wehling, Elisabeth); 13. "The Ultimate Spinner": Metaphors of evil in Hillary R. Clinton's media coverage (by Giordano, Michela); 14. Blending metaphors and arguments in advertising (by Mazzali-Lurati, Sabrina); 15. Metaphors and online learning (by Ligorio, M. Beatrice); 16. Metaphor in sign language poetry (by Sutton-Spence, Rachel); 17. Metaphor and the concept of sound in contemporary music (by Schreiber, Ewa); 18. Index
