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Author Prandi, Michele

Title Researching Metaphors : Towards a Comprehensive Account
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Linguistics Ser
Routledge Studies in Linguistics Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Bridging conventional and living metaphors -- 1 Some recent issues in conceptual metaphor theory -- 2 Creative metaphors and conceptual conflicts: the requirements of consistency as ontological presuppositions -- 3 Formal syntax and textual coherence: two wellsprings for conceptual conflicts -- 4 Hidden reference in the creation of metaphor -- 5 Types of metaphors and their structure: annotation guidelines between theory and practice
Part 2 Conventional and creative metaphors in special concepts and terms -- 6 Terminological metaphors: framing for better and for worse ... -- 7 Creating metaphors in specialised languages: choice criteria for the success of metaphorical terms -- 8 Reflections on metaphors and models in connection with theory building in economics -- 9 Specialized concepts and the career of metaphors: the diachronic development of ANGER IS A HOT FLUID and LOVE IS A JOURNEY from Latin to Old Italian -- Part 3 Living and conventional metaphors in use: texts, discourses, genres, translation
10 Metaphor in understanding literary characters -- 11 The driving role of stereotypy in proverbial metaphors -- 12 Social movements and metaphor: the case of #FridaysForFuture -- 13 Shakespeare's metaphorical swarms in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: textual and pragmatic features and their impact on the Italian translation -- Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Rossi, Micaela
ISBN 9781000606416
1000606414