Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

by Anderson, Wendy; Bramwell, Ellen; Hough, Carole

• ISBN13: 9780198744573
• ISBN10: 0198744579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-10-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Wendy Anderson is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching interests include semantics, metaphor, corpus linguistics, collocation and phraseology, and intercultural language education. She was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' (2012-2015), which sought to trace metaphor throughout the history of English, and the follow-on project 'Metaphor in the Curriculum' (2015-2016), which created materials on metaphor for use in secondary education. She is the author, with John Corbett, of Exploring English with Online Corpora (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).

Ellen Bramwell is a Research Associate working on metaphor and education at the University of Glasgow. She was Research Associate on the 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' project and the follow-on project 'Metaphor in the Curriculum', and previously worked on the Historical Thesaurus of English (published as the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary) and the 'Scots Words and Place-names' project. In addition to her research interests in digital humanities, semantics, and lexicography, she specializes in onomastics and sociolinguistics, with a particular interest in personal naming systems.

Carole Hough is Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught for over 20 years. She is a historical linguist who specializes in name studies, Old English, and historical semantics. She has published widely in these and other fields. Her most recent book is 'An Ald Reht': Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law (2014), and her most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming (2016). She has served as President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences and President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and is currently Vice-President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland.

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Preface: Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus
1. Introduction: The pursuit of metaphors, Andrew Prescott
Part I: The External World
2. The metaphorical landscape, Carole Hough
3. Metaphorical beasts in the history of English, Judith Paterson
4. Plants as metaphorical headgear in English, Carole P. Biggam
5. Food as a fruitful source of metaphor, Christian Kay
6. Metaphors of death in the Historical Thesaurus of English, Beth Ralston
Part II: The Mental World
7. The metaphorical qualities of cool, clear, and clashing colours, Rachael Hamilton
8. Waves of excitement, waves of metaphor, Wendy Anderson
9. Metaphors of religious anxiety in Early Modern England, Kenneth Austin
10. Madness, sanity, and metaphor, Ellen Bramwell
11. The importance of Old English head, Antonette diPaolo Healey
Part III: The Social World
12. The metaphorical understanding of power and authority, Marc Alexander
13. The dehumanized thief, Fraser Dallachy
14. Metaphors of weapons and armour through time, Daria Izdebska
15. Silent reading, Jane Roberts
16. The case of address terms, Irma Taavitsainen
Appendix: Mapping Metaphor categories
References
Index