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Metaphor in Culture
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 29.00This book is an attempt to bring the Lakoff-Johnson view of metaphor closer to those who have an interest in the role of metaphor in complex social-cultural phenomena, such as emotions, politics, thought, morality, as well as cultural processes and entities such as time, life, and personhood. more...
Metaphor
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 23.99This clear and lucid primer fills an important need by providing a comprehensive account of the many new developments in the study of metaphor over the last twenty years and their impact on our understanding of language, culture, and the mind. Beginning with Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work in Metaphors We Live By, Kovecses outlines the development... more...
Metaphor
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 23.99Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to... more...
Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 102.00This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical... more...
Metaphor and Emotion
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 32.00Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). This book challenges this division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural... more...
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