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Creating worldviews : metaphor, ideology and language /

Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by inves...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Underhill, James W. (James William) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. Metaphor
  • Chapter 1. Metaphor and World-Conceiving
  • Chapter 2. A Concern for Metaphor
  • Chapter 3. Metaphors We Live By
  • Chapter 4. Other Developments in Metaphor Theory
  • Chapter 5. Further Cognitive Contributions to Metaphor Theory
  • Chapter 6. Diversity on the Periphery
  • Part II. Case Studies in Metaphor
  • Introduction to Part II
  • Chapter 7. The Language of Czechoslovak Communist Power
  • Chapter 8. Hitlerdeutsch: Klemperer and the Language of the Third Reich
  • Chapter 9. Language in Metaphors
  • A Final Word
  • Glossary.