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Crises We Live By : A Transdisciplinary Study of Crisis and Its Metaphors in Their Cultural Context.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leonardis, Irene.
- Series:
- Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series
- Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts Series ; v.20
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphor.
- Discourse analysis.
- Genre:
- Case studies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.
- Summary:
- The book makes an innovative contribution to crisis studies and to Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT) by extending its historical reach back to antiquity and by adopting a transdisciplinary approach that takes into account the specific cultural context and framing of each metaphor for crisis.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Prologue / Andreas Musolff
- Crisis in ancient and contemporary uses / Irene Leonardis
- Metaphorical linguistic expressions and cognitive metaphors for crisis
- Metaphors for crisis in Polybius cycle of constitutions and mixed constitution / Andreas T. Zanker
- Are different crises we live by metaphorically conceptualised in different ways? / Antonella Luporini
- From trauma to reappraising life / Sara Vilar-Lluch
- Metaphors of physical harm and existential peril
- Illness and war / Alberto Martinengo
- Weathering the storm / William Michael Short
- The house is on fire / Chiara Gagliano
- Metaphor and the representation of COVID-19 in online discourse of solidarity / Maryna Bielova
- Metaphors of imbalance, instability and liminality
- Metaphors of ambiguity, uncertainty, and crisis in Early Greek poetry / Fabian Horn
- Metaphorical expressions of crisis and their role in the legitimation of dissent in Sinic thought / Marion Eggert, Heiner Roetz
- Collapse metaphor in Roman political discourse and its legacy / Irene Leonardis
- From a protective space to an erupting crisis / Michael Friedman
- Afterword / Irene Leonardis
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 90-272-4416-2
- 9789027244161
- OCLC:
- 1573148265
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