Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Mapping English metaphor through time / edited by Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell, and Carole Hough
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016
©2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xxi, 321 pages)
Series [Oxford linguistics]
Oxford linguistics.
Contents Introduction: The pursuit of metaphors / Andrew Prescott -- The metaphorical landscape / Carole Hough -- Metaphorical beasts in the history of English / Judith Paterson -- Plants as metaphorical headgear in English / Carole P. Biggam -- Food as a fruitful source of metaphor / Christian Kay -- Morbid curiosity and metaphors of death in the history of English / Beth Ralston -- The metaphorical qualities of cool, clear and clashing colours / Rachael Hamilton -- Waves of excitement, waves of metaphor / Wendy Anderson -- Metaphors of religious anxiety in Early Modern England / Kenneth Austin -- Madness, sanity, and metaphor / Ellen Bramwell -- The importance of Old English head / Antonette diPaolo Healey -- The metaphorical understanding of power and authority / Marc Alexander -- The dehumanized thief / Fraser Dallachy -- Metaphors of weapons and armour through time / Daria Izdebska -- Silent reading / Jane Roberts -- The case of address terms / Irma Taavitsainen -- Appendix: Mapping metaphor categories
Summary This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from 'The Historical Thesaurus of English'. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Metaphor -- History -- Congresses
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Metaphor
Metapher
Englisch
Metaphor -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Wendy, 1975- editor.
Bramwell, Ellen, editor
Hough, Carole, editor.
ISBN 9780191805820
0191805823
9780191062025
0191062022
9780198744573
0198744579