The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

Author: Raymond W. Gibbs Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 566
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780521841061

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Choice 10/01/2009