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Re-viewing space : figurative language in architects' assessment of built space /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caballero, Rosario, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Colección:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1. What this book says about metaphor, architects, and the assessment of building design
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A genre approach to metaphor
  • Chapter 2. Architectus Verborum. An introduction to architectural discourse
  • 1. Rendering space: The multimodal quality of architectural texts
  • 2. Thinking and talking about space: Metaphors architects live by
  • 2.1. Metaphors from the natural sciences
  • 2.2. Metaphors from linguistic description
  • 2.3. Metaphors from spatial mechanics
  • 3. This building is a fridge: The thinking eye of architectsChapter 3. The cognitive and rhetorical dimensions of metaphor
  • 1. What is metaphor? Defining metaphor
  • 1.1. Interaction views
  • 1.2. Comparison views
  • 1.3. Experientialist views
  • 2. What are metaphors for? The rhetorical dimension of metaphor
  • 2.1. Ideational focus
  • 2.2. Interpersonal focus
  • 2.3. Textual focus
  • Chapter 4. Exploring metaphor in the building review genre
  • 1. The building review
  • 1.1. The rhetorical organization of building reviews
  • 1.2. The building review versus other reviewing practices2. Building a text corpus for analysis
  • 3. Identifying metaphorical data in texts
  • 4. Classifying metaphor
  • 4.1. Metaphor taxonomies
  • 4.2. A proposal for classifying architectural metaphors
  • 5. Exploring metaphorical language in reviews
  • Chapter 5. Metaphorical language and its underlying schemas in architectural assessment
  • 1. Turning space into a building: Process-focused metaphors
  • 1.1. Manipulating concrete, physical matter
  • 1.2. Combining abstract, non-physical matter
  • 2. Highlighting the functional, behavioral and aesthetic properties of buildings: Product-focused metaphors2.1. Organic metaphors
  • 2.2. Inorganic metaphors
  • 2.3. Motion metaphors
  • 3. Metaphor diversification in architectural discourse
  • 3.1. Buildings as containers
  • 3.2. Buildings as part-whole composites
  • Chapter 6. The linguistic realization of metaphor in architectural discourse
  • 1. Nominal realizations
  • 1.1. Noun heads
  • 1.2. Pre-modification patterns
  • 1.3. Post-modification patterns
  • 1.4. Subject complements
  • 2. Verbal realizations
  • 2.1. Motion constructions3. Adjectival realizations
  • 3.1. Visually motivated adjectives
  • 3.2. Non-visually motivated adjectives
  • 4. Adverbial realizations
  • 5. Metaphorical clusters
  • Chapter 7. The contribution of figurative language to re-viewing space
  • 1. Figurative language and description
  • 1.1. Metaphor and spatial deixis
  • 1.2. Figurative language in captions
  • 2. Figurative language and evaluation
  • 3. The angle of telling: Figurative language and authorial positioning
  • 3.1. Looking properly
  • 3.2. Thinking properly