Extended conceptual metaphor theory /
"Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) started with George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's book, Metaphors We Live By (1980). The theory goes back a long way and builds on centuries of scholarship that takes metaphor not simply as an ornamental device in language but as a conceptual tool for structur...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- A brief outline of 'standard' conceptual metaphor theory and some outstanding issues
- The abstract understood figuratively, the concrete understood literally, but the concrete understood figuratively?
- Direct or indirect emergence?
- Domain, schema, frame or space?
- Conceptual or contextual?
- Offline or online?
- The shape of an extended view of conceptual metaphor theory
- By way of conclusion : responses to the five questions.