In:Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World
Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron
[Human Cognitive Processing 26] 2010
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 October 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.26.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.26.toc
Table of contents
Editors’ introduction
1. The wonderful, chaotic, creative, heroic, challenging world of Researching and Applying Metaphor: A celebration of the past and some peeks into the future
1. Metaphor and language learning
2. Can people be cold and warm? Developing understanding of figurative meanings of temperature terms in early EFL
3. Grasping the point: A study of 15-year-old students’ comprehension of metaphorical expressions in schoolbooks
4. “Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests”: Metaphor and the language learner
5. The gaps to be filled: The (mis)treatment of the polysemous senses of hand, cool and run in EFL text books
6. A cross-cultural study of metaphoric understanding
2. Capturing and analysing metaphors
7. Love, metaphor and responsibility: Some examples from Early Modern and Present-Day English corpora
8. A critical look at the desktop metaphor 30 years on
9. Pragglejaz in practice: Finding metaphorically used words in natural discourse
10. Mapping principles for conceptual metaphors
11. Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings
12. Attitude, style and context: Matching cognitive and aesthetic accounts of poetic interpretation
13. A genre approach to imagery in winespeak: Issues and prospects
3. The function of metaphor in discourse
14. Wot no similes? The curious absence of simile in university lectures
15. Metaphor marking and metaphor typological and functional ranges in business periodicals
16. Critical analysis of creative metaphors in political speeches
17. Metaphor in physical-and-speech action expressions
18. The evaluative properties of metaphors
Index of names
Index of terms
