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1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : illustrations |
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Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; v. 36 |
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Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 36.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic f |
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(Produktform)Electronic book text |
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(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft |
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(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000 |
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(VLB-WN)9561 |
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Metaphor and the shaping of educational thinkingIndex |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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Metaphor.
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metaphor.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Metaphor
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ervas, Francesca, editor.
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Gola, Elisabetta, editor.
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Rossi, Maria Grazia, 1984- editor
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| ISBN |
9783110549928 |
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3110549921 |
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9783110548129 |
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3110548127 |
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