Metaphor in Culture : Universality and Variation

Zoltan Kovecses

ISBN 10: 0521696127 / ISBN 13: 9780521696128

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltan Kovecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kovecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.

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• Titolo: Metaphor in Culture : Universality and Variation
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521696127
• ISBN 13: 9780521696128
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Riassunto

This exciting book proposes a new theory of metaphor variation.

Informazioni sull?autore

Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics, Department of American Studies, Eötvös Lorand University. He is the author of Metaphor and Emotion (2002), and Metaphor: A Practical Introduction (2000).