Extended conceptual metaphor theory /
The phenomenon known as metaphor is an extremely complex mental event - we cannot capture its complexity if we tie ourselves to existing standard views on metaphor. This book offers fresh insight into metaphor, updating an established theory, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), in the context of curre...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- A brief outline of 'standard' conceptual metaphor theory and some outstanding issues
- The abstract understood figuratively, the concrete understood literally, but the concrete understood figuratively?
- Direct or indirect emergence?
- Domain, schema, frame or space?
- Conceptual or contextual?
- Offline or online?
- The shape of an extended view of conceptual metaphor theory
- By way of conclusion : responses to the five questions.
