Researching and applying metaphor in the real world / edited by Graham Low ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Low, Graham.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 26.

Human cognitive processing ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Figures of speech.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of investigation. This book starts by describing the nature and scope of real world metaphor research and then illustrates, through 17 detailed, mainly empirically-based studies, the different areas it can apply to, and different methodologies that can be employed. Research problems are explored in areas such as artificial intelligence, language teaching and learning, reconciliation dialogue, university lecture discourse, poetry and wine description. Methods include corpus analysis, experimentation, discourse analysis, cross-cultural analysis and genre analysis. In each case the empirical studies refer back to Gibbs's opening overview of real-world research. The result is an invaluable and cross-referenced collection of papers addressing real-world problems.

Contents:

Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Editors' introduction

1. The wonderful, chaotic, creative, heroic, challenging world of Researching and Applying Metaphor

1. Introduction

2. The scope of real-world metaphor research

3. Ongoing struggles

4. Important analytic advances

5. Some peeks into the future

6. Metaphorical aesthetics

7. Conclusion

References

Section 1. Metaphor and language learning

2. Can people be cold and warm? Developing understanding of figurative meanings of temperature terms in early EFL

2. Warm and cold and domain knowledge

3. Method

4. Conclusions

Notes

Appendix

3. Grasping the point: A study of 15-year-old students' comprehension of metaphorical expressions in schoolbooks

2. Background

3. Comprehension research: Focus on methods

4. Research questions

5. Participants

6. Procedure

7. Comprehension testing

8. Findings

9. Variability in expressions

10. Results from the sets

11. Summary - The variability of the expressions

12. Discussion

13. General results and remedies

4. "Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests": Metaphor and the language learner

2. Metaphor and language learning

3. Encoding idiomatic meaning in the L2

4. Collocation and conceptualisation

5. Encoding L1 concepts in the L2: The creation of opaque metaphor

6. Conclusions

5. The gaps to be filled: Hand, cool and run in EFL text books

1. Introduction: Polysemy in the EFL classroom

2. Method

3. Description of results

4. Summary of results

5. The presentation and practice of hand, cool and run

Acknowledgements

Notes.

References

6. A cross-cultural study of metaphoric understanding

2. Experiment 1

3. Experiment 2

4. General discussion and conclusion

Section 2. Capturing and analysing metaphors

7. Love, metaphor and responsibility: Some examples from Early Modern and Present-Day English corpor

2. Examples from the data

3. Conclusions

8. A critical look at the desktop metaphor 30 years on

2. The Desktop Metaphor as an interface

3. From the command prompt to the virtual desktop

4. Summary

9. Pragglejaz in practice

2. Demonstration

3. More about demarcating lexical units

4. More about contextual meanings and basic meanings

5. The role of etymology: Diachronic versus synchronic approaches to meanings

6. More about distinctness and similarity

7. Concluding remarks

10. Mapping principles for conceptual metaphors

2. The Conceptual Mapping Model

3. Psycholinguistic experiments

4. Off-line acceptability ratings of metaphors

5. Off-line interpretability ratings on metaphors

6. On-line acceptability decision experiment

7. On-line interpretability ratings of metaphors

8. Discussion and conclusion

11. Systematicity in metaphor and the use of invariant mappings

2. Domains

3. Correspondence approaches and map-transcending entities

4. Invariant transfers

5. Invariant mappings and systematicity

6. Conclusion

12. Attitude, style and context: Matching cognitive and aesthetic accounts of poetic interpretation

2. Diagnosing the poetic.

3. Interpretation in practice: Extending the cognitivist approach

13. A genre approach to imagery in winespeak

2. The research context: The TN genre

3. Identifying figurative schemas in TNs

4. Classifying the figurative language in the TNs

5. Interpreting the figurative language in TNs

Section 3. The function of metaphor in discourse

14. Wot no similes? The curious absence of simile in university lectures

2. Simile and metaphorical simile

3. Identifying similes in discourse

4. What similes do

5. Four university lectures

6. Findings

7. Discussion

8. Conclusion

15. Metaphor marking and metaphor typological and functional ranges in business periodicals

2. The framework of study

3. Corpus and methodology

4. Results

5. Conclusions

16. Critical analysis of creative metaphors in political speeches

2. "Creative" and "creativity"

3. Creativity and political speeches

4. The gravitational centre of the European Integration

5. Metaphor and genres

6. Creative mappings

7. A critical analysis of creative metaphors

17. Metaphor in physical-and-speech action expressions

Background

Physical-and-speech action expressions: (1) sit down and talk

Physical-and-speech action expressions: (2) turn round and say

Other physical-and-speech action verbs in the focus group data

Conclusion

18. The evaluative properties of metaphors

Introduction

Mechanisms through which metaphors evaluate

Analysing metaphors using corpora

Multiword figurative expressions

Index of names.

Index of terms

The series Human Cognitive Processing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612895753

9789027287779

9027287775

9781282895751

1282895753

OCLC:

680036285