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Drawing attention to metaphor : case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities /

"The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla (Editor ), Egg, Markus, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Colección:Figurative thought and language ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027261496
9027261490
ISSN:2405-6944 ;