Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 August 2016
- ISBN 9780198744573
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 234x160x23 mm
- Weight 642 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Preface: Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus
Introduction: The pursuit of metaphors
Part I: The External World
The metaphorical landscape
Metaphorical beasts in the history of English
Plants as metaphorical headgear in English
Food as a fruitful source of metaphor
Metaphors of death in the Historical Thesaurus of English
Part II: The Mental World
The metaphorical qualities of cool, clear, and clashing colours
Waves of excitement, waves of metaphor
Metaphors of religious anxiety in Early Modern England
Madness, sanity, and metaphor
The importance of Old English head
Part III: The Social World
The metaphorical understanding of power and authority
The dehumanized thief
Metaphors of weapons and armour through time
Silent reading
The case of address terms
Appendix: Mapping Metaphor categories
References
Index
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