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Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Carole (Professor of Onomastics, Professor of Onomastics, University of Glasgow) Hough & Wendy (Senior Lecturer in English Language, Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Glasgow) Anderson & Ellen (Research Associate, Research Associate, University of Glasgow) Bramwell

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

 

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from The Historical Thesaurus of English. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.


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Beschrijving Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English. Metaphor is one of the hot topics in present-day linguistics, with a huge range of research focusing on the systematic connections between different concepts such as heat and anger (fuming, inflamed), sight and understanding (clear, see), or bodies and landscape (hill-foot, river-mouth). Until recently, the lack of a comprehensive data source made it difficult to obtain an overview of this phenomenon in any language, but this changed with the completion in 2009 of The Historical Thesaurus of English, the only historical thesaurus ever produced for any language. Chapters in this volume use this unique resource as a basis for case studies of semantic domains including Animals, Colour, Death, Fear, Food, Reading, and Theft, providing a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.


ISBN
9780198744573
Pagina's
344
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NUR
616
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP Oxford

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