Metaphor and Discourse

by Musolff, Andreas; Zinken, Jörg

• ISBN13: 9781137539984
• ISBN10: 1137539984
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-08-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Metaphor and Discourse presents work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas, which presents a challenge to the 'classic' Conceptual Metaphor Theory approach. Discourse scholars have for a long time been concerned with the difficulties of identifying, annotating, and analysing metaphors, as well as with the complex relations between the embodiment of metaphorical thought on the one hand and the socio-cultural grounding of metaphorical communication on the other. Now in paperback, the present book provides a state-of-the-art overview of this lively research field, and proposes innovative approaches in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond to solving tensions between conceptualist idealizations and empirically observable variation.

Author Biography

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has published on political rhetoric and its history in Britain and Germany. His books include the monographs and the co-edited volume Metaphor and Intercultural Communication, Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust, and Metaphor and Political Discourse.

Jörg Zinken is a researcher at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, Germany. His research has been concerned with language use across languages and in various (institutional and everyday) settings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding; J.Zinken and A.Musolff
PART I: METAPHOR IN DISCOURSE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
2. Metaphor, Culture, Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence; Z.Kövecses
3. Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy; G.Steen
4. Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending; P.Chilton
5. Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor; C.De Landtsheer
6. Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence; J.Barnden
PART II: METAPHORS IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC DISCOURSES: CASE STUDIES
7. Metaphor and Political Communication; J.Charteris-Black
8. Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse; V.Koller
9. How Business Press Headlines get their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor; M.White and H.Herrera
10. MRSA - Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts; B.Nerlich and N.Koteyko
PART III: METAPHOR EVOLUTION IN DISCOURSE HISTORY
11. Shifting Identities: Metaphors of Discourse Evolution; R.Frank
12. 'Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be': Linguistic Mercantilism in Renaissance France; D.Cowling
13. Interpretations of the Body Politic and of Natural Bodies in Late Sixteenth-Century France; K.Banks
14. Bodies Politic and Bodies Cosmic: the Roman Stoic Theory of the 'Two Cities'; J.Zavadil
15. Metaphor in the History of Ideas and in the History of Dis­course: How Can We Interpret a Medieval Version of the Body-state Analogy?; A.Musolff
16. Commentary: Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data; R.W.Gibbs, Jr. and J.E.Lonergan
Index