Metaphor: A Practical Introduction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-01-24
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0195145119
ISBN-13: 9780195145113
This 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 of "the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor" by explaining key ideas on metaphor. He also explores primary metaphor, metaphor systems, the "invariance principle," mental-imagery experiments, the many-space blending theory, and the role of...