Figurative Language

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and...
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SKU: 9780521184731
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Author: Barbara Dancygier
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Figurative Language by Dancygier, Barbara

Figurative Language

Dhs. 336.60

Figurative Language

Dhs. 336.60
Author: Barbara Dancygier
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. - Provides definitions of major concepts - Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity - Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres - Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language - Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data

Author: Barbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/06/2014
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521184731

About the Author
Dancygier, Barbara: - Barbara Dancygier is Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia.Sweetser, Eve: - Eve Sweetser is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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