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List of Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Typographical Conventions for Transcripts | p. xix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Dead and Live Metaphors: Two Examples | p. 2 |
Consequences: Sleeping and Waking Metaphors | p. 8 |
Bridging Gaps: Realms of Metaphors in Language Use | p. 12 |
Objective, Scope, and Structure of the Book | p. 18 |
Metaphors and Cognitive Activity: A Dynamic View | p. 22 |
Metaphors Are Based on a Cognitive Activity | p. 23 |
Metaphors Are Based on a Triadic Structure | p. 26 |
Metaphors Are Modality-Independent | p. 32 |
Metaphors Are a Matter of Use | p. 36 |
Summary: The Dynamic View | p. 39 |
Metaphors in Thought and Language: Fundamental Issues | p. 40 |
Metaphor, Reason, and Understanding? Epistemological Discrepancies | p. 41 |
The Nature of Metaphor: Cognitive or Linguistic? | p. 52 |
Conclusion: Establishment and Creation of Metaphoricity Is a Cognitive Process with Multimodal Products | p. 58 |
Realms of Metaphors: Activation in Language Use | p. 62 |
Conceptual Metaphors | p. 63 |
An Example: Lakoff and Kovecses's Conceptual System of Anger | p. 63 |
Primary and Complex Conceptual Metaphors | p. 71 |
How Are Conceptual Metaphor Systems Activated during Speaking? | p. 76 |
Verbal Metaphors | p. 81 |
Weinrich's Image Fields (Bildfelder), and Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphors | p. 81 |
Activation of Verbal Metaphors | p. 86 |
How Are Verbal Metaphors Activated during Speaking? | p. 89 |
Verbo-gestural Metaphors | p. 95 |
Gestural Metaphors and How They May Relate to Language | p. 96 |
How Are Verbo-gestural Metaphors Activated during Speaking? | p. 99 |
Verbo-pictorial Metaphors | p. 103 |
Pictorial Metaphors and How They May Relate to Language | p. 103 |
How Are Verbo-pictorial Metaphors Activated during Writing? | p. 109 |
Conclusion: Dead Metaphors Are Alive during Speaking and in Writing | p. 111 |
The Core of Metaphors: The Establishment of a Triadic Structure | p. 114 |
Duality of Meaning | p. 115 |
Triadic Structures in Historical Accounts: Constants and Variants | p. 116 |
Conclusion: Activated Metaphors Establish a Triadic Structure | p. 132 |
Mixed Metaphors: Selective Activation of Meaning | p. 134 |
What Are Mixed Metaphors? How Linguistic and Conceptual Metaphor Theory Set the Stage | p. 135 |
The "Butter-Mountain" Example from a Conceptual Metaphor Theory Point of View | p. 143 |
Discussion | p. 145 |
Why Mixed Metaphors Don't Make Sense! "Thinking Flaws" and Semantic Inconsistency | p. 147 |
The Rope Example | p. 148 |
The Put-on-the-Last Example | p. 154 |
The Molting River Example | p. 157 |
Why Mixed Metaphors Make Sense! Blending and Salience | p. 160 |
Metaphor, Blending, and Conceptual Integration: The Butcher Example | p. 161 |
Conclusion: Dead Metaphors Are Available for Conceptual Integration | p. 175 |
Sleeping and Waking Metaphors: Degrees of Metaphoricity | p. 178 |
The Dead versus Alive Distinction: A Critical Evaluation | p. 178 |
The Dead and Alive Assumption: A New Proposal | p. 188 |
Degrees of Metaphoricity and Salience | p. 201 |
Verbal Level Only | p. 202 |
Verbo-pictorial Metaphors | p. 203 |
Verbo-gestural Metaphors | p. 204 |
Conclusion: Dead Metaphors Vary in Activation and Salience | p. 208 |
The Refutation of the Dead versus Alive Distinction: A New Approach and Some of Its Implications | p. 210 |
Lieb's Sources | p. 223 |
Appendix | p. 227 |
Notes | p. 229 |
References | p. 243 |
Name Index | p. 263 |
Subject Index | p. 267 |
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