Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context Zóltan Kövecses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kövecses, Zoltán.

Series:

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 9.

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lectures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2018.

Summary:

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics . The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Contents:

1. Recent Challenges to Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2. Metaphorical Meaning Making: Discourse, Language, and Culture

3. Metaphor, Culture, and Embodiment

4. Emotions I: A Cognitive Linguistic Theory

5. Emotions II: Life and Happiness

6. Metonymy: A New Look

7. A New View of Metaphorical Creativity I

8. A New View of Metaphorical Creativity II

9. Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Teaching

10. Theories of Metaphor: A Synthesis

About the Series Editor

Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004364905

9004364900

OCLC:

1019738161

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004364905 DOI