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Metaphor and writing : figurative thought in the discourse of written communication /

"This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors an...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Eubanks, Philip, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Collection:Cambridge books online.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. In search of the figurative rhetoric of writing; 2. The double-bind of writer and to write: graded categories; 3. Bind upon bind: the general-ability and specific-expertise views of writing; 4. Three licensing stories: the literate inscriber, the good writer, and the author; 5. Writing as transcription, talk, and voice: a complex metonymy; 6. The writing self: multiple selves, conceptual blends; 7. Writing to 'get ideas across': the role of the conduit metaphor; 8. Codes and conversations: the other conduit metaphor; 9. Metaphor and choice.