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Metaphor Analysis
Lynne Cameron (Ed.)
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Description for Metaphor Analysis
Paperback. By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. Editor(s): Cameron, Lynne; Maslen, Robert. Series: Studies in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; GTC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 482.
Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking - constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and an important way of using language - to explain abstract ideas or to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. When real-world language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers face methodological issues that have only recently begun to be addressed. The ... Read more
Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking - constructing analogies and making connections between ideas - and an important way of using language - to explain abstract ideas or to find indirect but powerful ways of conveying feelings. By investigating people's use of metaphors, we can better understand their emotions, attitudes and conceptualisations, as individuals and as participants in social life. This book describes practice in the analysis of metaphor in real-world discourse. When real-world language use is taken as the site of metaphor study, researchers face methodological issues that have only recently begun to be addressed. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Studies in Applied Linguistics
Condition
New
Weight
481g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845534479
SKU
V9781845534479
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About Lynne Cameron (Ed.)
Lynne Cameron is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University. Robert Maslen is a Research Associate at the Centre for Language and Communication, the Open University. He gained his PhD in language acquisition from the Department of Psychology, University of Manchester (with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ... Read more
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