Andrew Goatly
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrew Goatly is
involved.
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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in meaning and usage than the bases from which… read moreWashing the Brain – Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
Andrew Goatly
Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude, investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields… read moreArticles
Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), in discussing the textual metafunction of grammar, identifies any sentence element other than Subject in initial position in declarative clauses as “marked Theme”. Previous research analysed the use of marked Theme in A. E. Housman’s poem sequence A Shropshire… read more As an ecostylistics project locating Edward Thomas within the poetic tradition of Romantic Ecology, this chapter uses Systemic Functional Grammar to analyse nature-referring noun phrases in his Collected Poems. Nature is represented as active, the categories WATER, WEATHER, MONTHS/SEASONS,… read more The argument I wish to advance in this paper is that Gricean theory (Grice 1968, 1969, 1975, 1978, 1981) and, in particular, the potentially useful relevance theory which developed from it (Sperber & Wilson 1986), are flawed through their failure to consider cultural and social context; but that… read more 
