Creating worldviews : metaphor, ideology and language / [electronic resource]
Underhill, James W.(James William),author.
Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought  Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Metaphor; Chapter 1 Metaphor and World-Conceiving; Chapter 2 A Concern for Metaphor; Chapter 3 Metaphors We Live By; Chapter 4 Other Developments in Metaphor Theory; Chapter 5 Further Cognitive Contributions to Metaphor Theory; Chapter 6 Diversity on the Periphery; Part II Case Studies in Metaphor; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 7 The Language of Czechoslovak Communist Power; Chapter 8 Hitlerdeutsch: Klemperer and the Language of the Third Reich; Chapter 9 Language in Metaphors; A Final Word; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Reflecting upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought  Underhill analyses the discourse of several languages in recent history.
Semantics.
Metaphor.