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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kövecses, Zoltán (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.