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Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education /

Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ervas, Francesca (Editor ), Gola, Elisabetta (Editor ), Rossi, Maria Grazia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 36.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of contents; How embodied cognition still matters to metaphor studies; Part I: Theoretical perspectives; Metaphor and metonymy in folk and expert theories of emotion; Metaphor and Metamorphosis; Is language necessary to interpret visual metaphors?; Embodied Simulation and metaphorical gestures; Part II: Communication; Audiovisual metaphors and metonymies of emotions and depression in moving images; Leading the war at home and winning the race abroad: Metaphors used by President Obama to frame the fight against climate change; Secret codes of metaphor: Anatomy of architecture.
  • Some observations about metaphors in specialised languagesPart III: Science; Classical physics as a metaphorical tool for evoking quantum world; Integration and differentiation at the basis of metaphor: dexterity in behaviour and degeneracy in the nervous system; Building metaphors: Constitutive narratives in science; Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts; Part IV: Education; Eliciting metaphor in education research: Is it really worth the effort?; Teaching (in) metaphors; Metaphoricity in English L2 learners' prepositions.