Metaphor Analysis

Metaphor Analysis
Author: Lynne Cameron
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Metaphor
ISBN: 9781845534479

This work describes practice in the analysis of metaphor on real-world discourse. The contributors have all had to find ways to deal with methodological issues in their own research and have developed techniques that are brought together here.

Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse

Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse
Author: Wan Wan
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9027268436

The ability to recognise, discuss and evaluate one’s educational beliefs and working practices in metaphoric terms has for several years been seen as a highly valuable tool for increasing self-awareness, facilitating learning (or teaching), and/or predicting behaviour. This is the first edited book solely devoted to the topic of researching elicited metaphor in education, and brings together key researchers from China, Poland, Puerto Rico, South America, UK and USA. The 12 chapters involve overviews and state-of-the-art articles, articles focussing on methodology and validation, as well as reflections on the effectiveness of techniques and research reports of recent empirical studies. The bulk of the articles relate to literacy (L1 and L2) and teacher education, but science education is also addressed. The book offers useful models for academics, professionals and PhD students in these areas, and provides solutions for improving the validity of elicited metaphor techniques in educational research.

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse
Author: Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110629461

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres. It reflects three foremost trends of present metaphor research, namely the communicative approach, the cognitive modelling approach and the multimodality approach. These trends are considered as areas of research emerging on the ground of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, initiated by Lakoff. The book intends to show their concomitances as well as mark their diversifying paths. The aim is to bring about and make apparent the many connections among assumingly different trends stemming from CMT. Whereas discrepancies between communicative and conceptual perspectives might seem irredeemable, the book emphasizes and claims that the background framework of CMT provides a solid foundation for collaboration and mutual influence. Consequently, the analysis of metaphor usage in context may provide insights for cognitive modelling proposals. The analysis of cognitive configuration of conceptual domains may, in turn, illuminate our understanding of communicative decisions in discourse. The integration of multimodal metaphor analysis puts forward the idea that diverse modal manifestations of metaphor reveal the symbiosis between communicative and cognitive stances. The various subject areas and methodologies illuminate the scene of current research in the field. The poignant contributions open far reaching avenues into the realm of human thought and discourse.

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis

Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis
Author: Jonathan Charteris-Black
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2004-02-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230000614

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response. 'Critical Metaphor Analysis' is then developed in a series of corpus-based studies in which analysis of collocations provides insight into the cognitive motivation and expressive connotation of metaphor. By unifying traditional and cognitive semantic with pragmatic approaches, the reader becomes aware of the importance of metaphor in persuasive language.

Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage

Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage
Author: Gerard J. Steen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2007-11-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027291853

Cognitive linguists have proposed that metaphor is not just a matter of language but of thought, and that metaphorical thought displays a high degree of conventionalization. In order to produce converging evidence for this theory of metaphor, a wide range of data is currently being studied with a large array of methods and techniques. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage aims to map the field of this development in theory and research from a methodological perspective. It raises the question when exactly evidence for metaphor in language and thought can be said to count as converging. It also goes into the various stages of producing such evidence (conceptualization, operationalization, data collection and analysis, and interpretation). The book offers systematic discussion of eight distinct areas of metaphor research that emerge as a result of approaching metaphor as part of grammar or usage, language or thought, and symbolic structure or cognitive process.

Metaphor Wars

Metaphor Wars
Author: Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107071143

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse

Current Approaches to Metaphor Analysis in Discourse
Author: Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110625970

This volume takes up the challenge of surveying the present state of a variety of approaches to the identification, analysis and interpretation of metaphor across communication channels, situational contexts, genres and social spheres. It reflects three foremost trends of present metaphor research, namely the communicative approach, the cognitive modelling approach and the multimodality approach. These trends are considered as areas of research emerging on the ground of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, initiated by Lakoff. The book intends to show their concomitances as well as mark their diversifying paths. The aim is to bring about and make apparent the many connections among assumingly different trends stemming from CMT. Whereas discrepancies between communicative and conceptual perspectives might seem irredeemable, the book emphasizes and claims that the background framework of CMT provides a solid foundation for collaboration and mutual influence. Consequently, the analysis of metaphor usage in context may provide insights for cognitive modelling proposals. The analysis of cognitive configuration of conceptual domains may, in turn, illuminate our understanding of communicative decisions in discourse. The integration of multimodal metaphor analysis puts forward the idea that diverse modal manifestations of metaphor reveal the symbiosis between communicative and cognitive stances. The various subject areas and methodologies illuminate the scene of current research in the field. The poignant contributions open far reaching avenues into the realm of human thought and discourse.

Metaphor in Psychotherapy

Metaphor in Psychotherapy
Author: Dennis Tay
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-07-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027271615

This book represents a bold attempt to address contemporary issues in both metaphor and psychotherapy research. On one hand, metaphor research is increasingly concerned not just with describing metaphors in discourse, but how they could be used more adroitly in purposive ‘real world’ contexts such as psychotherapy. On the other hand, while a growing number of mental health professionals believe that metaphors contribute in some way to the psychotherapy process, their ability and willingness to use metaphors might be compromised by a relative unfamiliarity with the various nuanced aspects of metaphor theory. The present analysis of metaphors in authentic psychotherapeutic talk brings these theoretical aspects to the forefront, and suggests how they can be applied to enhance the use of communication of metaphors in psychotherapy. It should be of interest to metaphor researchers, mental health professionals, and discourse analysts in general.

Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1980-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780226468006

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.

Drawing Attention to Metaphor

Drawing Attention to Metaphor
Author: Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027261490

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.