Metaphor and Discourse

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Metaphor, Culture, and Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence....Pages 11-24
Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy....Pages 25-39
Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending....Pages 40-58
Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor....Pages 59-78
Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence....Pages 79-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Metaphor and Political Communication....Pages 97-115
Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse....Pages 116-134
How Business Press Headlines Get Their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor....Pages 135-152
MRSA — Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts....Pages 153-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Shifting Identities: Metaphors of Discourse Evolution....Pages 173-189
‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’: Linguistic Mercantilism in Renaissance France....Pages 190-204
Interpretations of the Body Politic and of Natural Bodies in Late Sixteenth-Century France....Pages 205-218
Bodies Politic and Bodies Cosmic: The Roman Stoic Theory of the ‘Two Cities’....Pages 219-232
Metaphor in the History of Ideas and Discourses: How Can We Interpret a Medieval Version of the Body-State Analogy?....Pages 233-247
Front Matter....Pages 249-249
Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data....Pages 251-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-269