Confronting metaphor in use
Subtitle: an applied linguistic approach
By: edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, Marilda C. Cavalcanti.
Contributors: Zanotto, Mara Sophia.; Cameron, Lynne.; Cavalcanti, Marilda do Couto.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series -- v. 173
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.; John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9789027254177
Subjects: Metaphor
Description: "This book brings language and social dimensions into the picture, offering snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the very different cultures of Europe and Brazil and contributing to the theorizing of metaphor in discourse."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening Pandora's box / Mara Sophia Zanotto and Dieli Vesaro Palma; title: Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk / Lynne Cameron; title: Adding sound to the picture / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers; title: Metaphor and positioning in academic book reviews / Graham Low; title: Brothers in arms / Veronika Koller; title: Metaphor probabilities in corpora / Tony Berber Sardinha; title: Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory / Alice Deignan; title: Exploring metaphors in corpora / Solange Vereza; title: Young learners' understanding of figurative language / Ana M. Piquer-Piriz; title: The relationship between associative thinking, analogical reasoning image formation and metaphoric extension strategies / Jeannette Littlemore; title: The awakening of Sleeping Beauty / João A. Telles; title: En route through metaphors / Marilda Cavalcanti and Ana Cecília Bizon; title: School teachers in favela contexts / Fernanda Coelho Liberali; title: Professional knowledge landscape / Maximina F. Freire.