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Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of methods and techniques. Finding Metaphor... more...
Cognitive Poetics in Practice
Routledge 2003; US$ 44.95Cognitive poetics involves the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetic analysis. more...
The Psychology and Sociology of Literature
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2001; US$ 210.00The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie... more...
Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 188.00This collection presents a number of studies in the lexico-grammar of English which focus on the one hand on close reading of language in context and on the other hand on current functional theoretical concerns. The various contributions represent distinct functionalist models of language, including Functional Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar,... more...
Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999; US$ 158.00This book contains a selection of refereed and revised papers originally presented at the 5th ICLC. After an introduction by the editors, the book opens with a long-needed chapter on historical precedents for the Cognitive Linguistic theory of metaphor. Two chapters demonstrate the method of lexical analysis of linguistic metaphors and how it can be... more...
A Method for Linguistic Metaphor Identification
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 135.00This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual of instructions covering one chapter, the method being a development and refinement... more...
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