Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Mixing Metaphor
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Mixing metaphor in perspective
  • 2. Summary of the chapters
  • 1. A view of "mixed metaphor" within a conceptual metaphor theory framework
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Some questions about mixed metaphors
  • 1.2.1 Why are imagistically incongruent metaphors selected at a particular point in discourse?
  • 1.2.2 Why are mixed metaphors so common?
  • 1.2.3 Why do we have cases of metaphorically entirely homogeneous discourse?
  • 1.2.4 Why are often widely divergent source domains inserted into discourse?
  • 1.2.5 How do we comprehend mixed metaphors?
  • 1.3 Mixed metaphors and the issue of deliberateness
  • 1.4 Conclusions
  • Reference
  • 2. Mixed metaphors from a discourse dynamics perspective
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Multiple metaphors in talk
  • 2.2.1 The production of multiple metaphors
  • 2.2.2 Multiple metaphors arising from shifting discourse topics
  • 2.2.3 Multiple metaphors arising from anaphoric reference and lexico‑conceptual pacts
  • 2.2.4 Multiple metaphors combining in a metaphorical scenario
  • 2.2.5 Layered metaphors
  • 2.2.6 Multiple metaphors in metaphor clusters: Summary
  • 2.3 Multiple metaphors in theory-building
  • 2.4 Conclusions
  • References
  • 3. Why mixed metaphors make sense
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Why should mixing metaphors be problematic?
  • 3.3 Mixed metaphors foreground uncommon aspects of meaning
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • A dynamic view on metaphors in language use
  • References
  • 4. Tackling mixed metaphors in discourse
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Study 1
  • 4.2.1 Method
  • 4.2.2 Results
  • 4.3 Study 2
  • 4.3.1 Method
  • 4.3.1.1 Participants
  • 4.3.1.2 Materials and Procedure
  • 4.3.2 Results
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • 5. Mixed metaphor
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The ATT-Meta approach.
  • 5.2.1 ATT-Meta's orientation and a quick example
  • 5.2.2 Fictionalist/pretence-based approach
  • 5.2.3 Metaphorical views and mappings in ATT-Meta
  • 5.2.4 The pretence-based nature of mappings
  • 5.2.5 Detail in a sub-persons example
  • 5.2.6 Ancillary assumptions
  • 5.2.7 View-neutral mapping adjuncts
  • 5.2.8 Goal-directed reasoning
  • 5.2.9 ATT-Meta and blending
  • 5.3 ATT-Meta and mixed metaphor
  • 5.3.1 The marigold example: Mixed form
  • 5.3.2 Deployment of pretence spaces, VNMAs and inference
  • 5.3.3 More on parallel mixing
  • 5.3.4 Combining different types of mixing
  • 5.3.5 Advantages that ATT-Meta brings to mixed metaphor
  • 5.4 Further discussion: Variability of analysis
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 6. Mixed metaphor is a question of deliberateness
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Mixed metaphor and deliberateness
  • 6.3 Deliberate versus non-deliberate metaphor
  • 6.4 From deliberate to mixed metaphor
  • 6.5 Epilogue
  • References
  • 7. When languages and cultures meet
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Metaphor and the learner of English
  • 7.3 Mixed, extended, and repeated metaphors in language learner discourse
  • 7.4 Discussion and conclusion
  • References
  • 8. The 'dull roar' and the 'burning barbed wire pantyhose'
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Complex metaphor
  • 8.3 Mixed metaphor
  • 8.4 Extended and elaborated metaphor
  • 8.5 Embodied simulation, pain and systematic metaphor
  • 8.6 The interviews
  • 8.7 Analysis of complex use of metaphor
  • 8.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 9. We drink with our eyes first
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Describing and evaluating sensory experience
  • 9.3 Sensory descriptors
  • 9.4 Sensory and kinesthetic imagery
  • 9.5 The discursive role of imagery
  • 9.6 Summary
  • References
  • 10. A corpus-based study of 'mixed metaphor' as a metalinguistic comment.
  • 10.1 Introduction: Mixed metaphor as a 'folk' concept and a technical term
  • 10.2 Data
  • 10.3 Patterns in the use of 'mixed metaphor' in the data
  • 10.3.1 Clashes between different uses of metaphor involving the same source domain
  • 10.3.2 Grammatical boundaries and 'mixed metaphor'
  • 10.3.3 'Mixed metaphor' and relationships between source domain and topic
  • 10.4 Concluding remarks
  • References
  • 11. Mixing in pictorial and multimodal metaphors?
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 Characteristics of mixed verbal metaphors
  • 11.3 Mixed metaphor in pictures and multimodal discourse: Candidates
  • 11.4 Mixed metaphors and Blending Theory
  • 11.5 Concluding remarks and further research
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • 12. Extended metaphor in the web of discourse
  • 12.1 Introduction: A cognitive perspective
  • 12.2 Stylistic pattern of extended metaphor as a structure of thought
  • 12.3 Types of extended metaphor
  • 12.4 A diachronic approach to the stylistic use of extended metaphor
  • 12.5 Sustainability of figurative thought: A discourse dimension
  • 12.6 Extended metaphor in multimodal discourse: A case study
  • 12.7 "Mixed" metaphors
  • 12.8 Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.