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Confronting metaphor in use : an applied linguistic approach /

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Zanotto, Mara Sophia, Cameron, Lynne, Cavalcanti, Marilda do Couto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 173.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening Pandora's box / Mara Sophia Zanotto and Dieli Vesaro Palma
  • Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk / Lynne Cameron
  • Adding sound to the picture / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers
  • Metaphor and positioning in academic book reviews / Graham Low
  • Brothers in arms / Veronika Koller
  • Metaphor probabilities in corpora / Tony Berber Sardinha
  • Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory / Alice Deignan
  • Exploring metaphors in corpora / Solange Vereza
  • Young learners' understanding of figurative language / Ana M. Piquer-Piriz
  • The relationship between associative thinking, analogical reasoning, image formation and metaphoric extension strategies / Jeannette Littlemore
  • The awakening of Sleeping Beauty / João A. Telles
  • En route through metaphors / Marilda C. Cavalcanti and Ana Cecília Bizon
  • School teachers in favela contexts / Fernanda Coelho Liberali
  • Professional knowledge landscape / Maximina F. Freire.