Metaphor and Discourse

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
1 A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding......Page 14
Part I: Metaphor in Discourse: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives......Page 22
2 Metaphor, Culture, and Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence......Page 24
3 Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy......Page 38
4 Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending......Page 53
5 Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor......Page 72
6 Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence......Page 92
Part II: Metaphors in Contemporary Public Discourses: Case Studies......Page 108
7 Metaphor and Political Communication......Page 110
8 Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse......Page 129
9 How Business Press Headlines Get Their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor......Page 148
10 MRSA – Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts......Page 166
Part III: Metaphor Evolution in Discourse History......Page 184
11 Shifting Identities: Metaphors of Discourse Evolution......Page 186
12 ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’: Linguistic Mercantilism in Renaissance France......Page 203
13 Interpretations of the Body Politic and of Natural Bodies in Late Sixteenth-Century France......Page 218
14 Bodies Politic and Bodies Cosmic: The Roman Stoic Theory of the ‘Two Cities’......Page 232
15 Metaphor in the History of Ideas and Discourses: How Can We Interpret a Medieval Version of the Body–State Analogy?......Page 246
Commentary......Page 262
16 Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data......Page 264
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D......Page 277
H......Page 278
M......Page 279
P......Page 280
S......Page 281
Z......Page 282