Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Name: Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
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ISBN: 9780521600866

ISBN-10: 0521600863

ISBN-13: 9780521600866

Edition: 2008

Authors: Raymond W. Gibbs

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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.

Book details

List price: $68.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.80" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English



Contributors



Introduction


Metaphor and thought: The state of the art




The Roots of Metaphor



The neural theory of metaphor




Philosophy's debt to metaphor




Rethinking metaphor




How metaphors create categories - quickly




A deflationary account of metaphors




Metaphor Understanding



Metaphor as structure-mapping




How the mind computes the meaning of metaphor: A simulation based on LSA




Is metaphor unique?




Metaphor, imagination, and simulation: Psycholinguistic evidence




Metaphor comprehension and the brain




Metaphor in Language and Culture



Metaphor and talk




Metaphor and education




Metaphor in literature




Metaphor from body and culture




Metaphor, semantics, and context




Corpus linguistics and metaphor




Metaphor and poetic figures




Metaphor in Reasoning and Feeling



Metaphor and artificial intelligence: Why they matter to each other




Conceptual metaphor, human cognition, and the nature of mathematics




What is the "color" of law?




Metaphor and emotion




Putting it in context: Metaphor and psychotherapy




Metaphor and psychoanalysis




Crossing the senses in metaphorical language




Metaphor in Nonverbal Expression



Metaphor and art




Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representations




Metaphor, gesture, and thought




Metaphor and music



Author index


Subject index