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Per­cep­tion metaphors
Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of anoth­er, ratch­et­ing up our cog­ni­tive and expres­sive capac­i­ty. It gives us con­crete terms for abstract phe­nom­e­na, for exam­ple, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Per­cep­tu­al expe­ri­ence — char­ac­terised as phys­i­cal and rel­a­tive­ly concrete—should be an ide­al source domain in metaphor, and a less like­ly tar­get. But is this the case across diverse lan­guages? And are some sen­so­ry modal­i­ties per­haps more con­crete than oth­ers? This vol­ume presents crit­i­cal new data on per­cep­tion metaphors from over 40 lan­guages, includ­ing many which are under-stud­ied. Aside from the wealth of data from diverse languages—modern and his­tor­i­cal; spo­ken and signed—a vari­ety of meth­ods (e.g., nat­ur­al lan­guage cor­po­ra, exper­i­men­tal) and the­o­ret­i­cal approach­es are brought togeth­er. This col­lec­tion high­lights how per­cep­tion metaphor can offer both a bedrock of com­mon expe­ri­ence and a source of con­tin­u­ing inno­va­tion in human com­mu­ni­ca­tion.
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Ani­mals, Ani­mal­i­ty, and Lit­er­a­ture
Ani­mals, Ani­mal­i­ty, and Lit­er­a­ture offers read­ers a one-vol­ume sur­vey of the field of lit­er­ary ani­mal stud­ies in both its the­o­ret­i­cal and applied dimen­sions. Focus­ing on Eng­lish lit­er­ary his­to­ry, with scrupu­lous atten­tion to the inter­play between Eng­lish and for­eign influ­ences, this col­lec­tion gath­ers togeth­er the work of nine­teen inter­na­tion­al­ly not­ed spe­cial­ists in this grow­ing dis­ci­pline. Offer­ing dis­cus­sion of Eng­lish lit­er­ary works from Beowulf to Vir­ginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal dif­fer­ence has been his­tor­i­cal­ly acti­vat­ed with­in the lit­er­ary con­text: in devo­tion­al works, in philo­soph­i­cal and zoo­log­i­cal trea­tis­es, in plays and poems and nov­els, and more recent­ly with­in emerg­ing nar­ra­tive gen­res such as cin­e­ma and ani­ma­tion. With an intro­duc­to­ry overview of the his­tor­i­cal devel­op­ment of ani­mal stud­ies and after­word look­ing to the field’s future pos­si­bil­i­ties, Ani­mals, Ani­mal­i­ty, and Lit­er­a­ture pro­vides a wide-rang­ing sur­vey of where this dis­ci­pline cur­rent­ly stands.
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