Metaphor and intercultural communication / edited by Andreas Musolff, Fiona MacArthur and Giulio Pagani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsung, Linda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingual education and bilingualism.

Language policy.

Linguistic minorities.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

"Metaphor and Intercultural Communication examines in detail the dynamics of metaphor in interlingual contact, translation and globalization processes. Its case-studies, which combine methods of cognitive metaphor theory with those of corpus-based and discourse-oriented research, cover contact linguistic and cultural contacts between Chinese, English including Translational English and Aboriginal English, Greek, Kabyle, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. Part I introduces readers to practical and methodological problems of the intercultural transfer of metaphor through empirical (corpus-based and experimental) studies of translators' experiences and strategies in dealing with figurative language in a variety of contexts. Part II explores the universality-relativity dimension of cross- and intercultural metaphor on the basis of empirical data from various European and non-European cultures. Part III investigates the socio-economic and political consequences of figurative language use through case studies of communication between aboriginal and mainstream cultures, in the media, in political discourse and gender-related discourses. Special attention is paid to cases of miscommunication and of deliberate re- and counter-conceptualisation of cliché from one culture into another. The results open new perspectives on some of the basic assumptions of the 'classic' cognitive paradigm, e.g. regarding metaphor understanding, linguistic relativity and concept-construction."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Metaphor in translation

pt. 2. Universal versus culture-specific aspects of metaphor

pt. 3. Metaphor, globalization and intercultural communication.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781472570468

1472570464

9781472587213

1472587219

9781472593627

1472593626

9781472570475

1472570472

OCLC:

880878114