Anderson, W. , Bramwell, E. and Hough, C. (Eds.) (2016) Mapping English Metaphor through Time. Series: Oxford linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198744573
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Abstract
This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English. Metaphor is one of the hot topics in present-day linguistics, with a huge range of research focusing on the systematic connections between different concepts such as heat and anger (fuming, inflamed), sight and understanding (clear, see), or bodies and landscape (hill-foot, river-mouth). Until recently, the lack of a comprehensive data source made it difficult to obtain an overview of this phenomenon in any language, but this changed with the completion in 2009 of The Historical Thesaurus of English, the only historical thesaurus ever produced for any language. Chapters in this volume use this unique resource as a basis for case studies of semantic domains including Animals, Colour, Death, Fear, Food, Reading, and Theft, providing a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.
| Item Type: | Edited Books |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Hough, Professor Carole and Bramwell, Dr Ellen and Anderson, Professor Wendy |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PE English |
| College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780198744573 |
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