Research Catalog

Title

Researching and applying metaphor / edited by Lynne Cameron and Graham Low.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Low, Graham.
• Cameron, Lynne.

Description

xv, 295 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognized as central to language and language use. The implications of these findings are only just beginning to be felt in applied linguistics and this is designed to convey the excitement of metaphor study to a wider applied linguistic audience of researchers, trainers, programme developers and postgraduate students. The authors of the 12 papers are all internationally active researchers, contributing from their various backgrounds to this lively collection. Researching and Applying Metaphor presents a series of case studies plus an innovative initial section which discusses key aspects of researching metaphor in use. It demonstrates how metaphor can be, and needs to be, researched using multiple methods of investigation.

Series Statement

The Cambridge Applied Linguistics Series

Uniform Title

Cambridge applied linguistics series

Subject

• Metaphor > Research > Methodology
• Metaphor > Research > Methodology > Case studies
• Metaphor
• Angewandte Linguistik
• Metapher
• Kognitive Linguistik
• Metaforen
• Toegepaste taalwetenschap

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-287) and index.

Contents

Operationalising 'metaphor' for applied linguistic research / Lynne Cameron -- Researching metaphor / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. -- Validating metaphor research projects / Graham Low -- Getting your sources right : what Aristotle did'nt say / James Edwin Mahon -- Metaphor and discourse : towards a linguistic checklist for metaphor analysis / Gerard Steen -- Identifying and describing metaphor in spoken discourse data / Lynne Cameron -- Who framed SLA research? : problem framing and metaphoric accounts of the SLA research process / David Block -- Bridges to learning : metaphors of teaching, learning and language / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin -- Corpus-based research into metaphor / Alice Deignan -- "Captain of my own ship" : metaphor and the discourse of chronic illness / Richard Gwyn -- "This paper thinks ..." : investigating the acceptability of the metaphor An essay is a person / Graham Low -- When is a dead rainbow not like a dead rainbow? : a context-sensitive method for investigating differences between metaphor and simile / Zazie Todd and David D. Clarke.

ISBN

• 0521640229
• 9780521640220
• 0521649641
• 9780521649643
• 9781139524704
• 1139524704

OCLC

• ocm40881885
• 40881885
• SCSB-868084

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library