Metaphor, metonymy and lexicogenesis This book investigates the interaction between new English lexis and metaphor/metonymy – figures meticulously defined and contrasted in terms of similarity/contiguity. It advances three main hypotheses: (i) derived lexis is more likely to be figurative in … Weiterlesen
Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century In 1864, the German jurist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs coined the term “urning” as a word for same-sex attracted men. Over the next few years, first anonymously and then publicly, he campaigned against … Weiterlesen
Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and … Weiterlesen
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor … Weiterlesen
Die Metapher, die immer da ist: Studien zur Literaturtheorie und TextanalyseFiktionalität und Poetizität, Formen des Fantastischen in der Literatur, Psychologie und Literaturwissenschaft, Literarische Imagologie und Stereotypenforschung – diese Studien befassen sich mit Grundfragen der Allgemeinen Literaturwissenschaft in theoretischen Darstellungen und … Weiterlesen
Metaphor and Senses: The Synamet Corpus: A Polish Resource for Synesthetic MetaphorsThe book deals with the synesthetic metaphors in Synamet – a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus. The texts included in the corpus are excerpted from blogs devoted to, among … Weiterlesen
Perception metaphorsMetaphor 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 … Weiterlesen