Elisabetta Gola

List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabetta Gola is involved.

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Metaphor and Communication

Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.

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Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas 2016 Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view? Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

This chapter aims to introduce metaphors from two different perspectives: cognitive-linguistic and communicative. In presenting these views, we refer to Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors (1980) which influenced the evolving field of metaphor studies and its applications to related… read more