The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language

Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: metaphor and language • Zsófia Demjén and Elena Semino
Part I: Theoretical approaches to metaphor and language
	1 Conceptual metaphor theory • Zoltán Kövecses
	2 Figurativeness, conceptual metaphor, and blending • Barbara Dancygier
	3 Relevance theory and metaphor • Robyn Carston
	4 Metaphor, language, and dynamical systems • Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Part II: Methodological approaches to metaphor and language
	5 Identifying metaphors in language • Gerard Steen
	6 Finding systematic metaphors • Robert Maslen
	7 From linguistic to conceptual metaphors • Alice Deignan
	8 Corpus-linguistic approaches to metaphor analysis • Heli Tissari
	9 Analysing metaphor in gesture: a set of metaphor identification guidelines for gesture (MIG-G) • Alan Cienki
	10 Analysing metaphors in multimodal texts • Elisabeth El Refaie
Part III: Formal variation of metaphor in language
	11 Metaphor and parts-of-speech • Tina Krennmayr
	12 Textual patterning of metaphor • Aletta G. Dorst
	13 Genre and metaphor: use and variation across usage events • Rosario Caballero
	14 Creative metaphor in literature • Marco Caracciolo
	15 Conventional and novel metaphors in language • Gill Philip
	16 Metaphor and diachronic variation • Wendy Anderson
	17 Metaphor in translation • Christina Schäffner
	18 Metaphor in sign language • Michiko Kaneko and Rachel Sutton-Spence
Part IV: Functional variation of metaphor in language
	19 Metaphor use in educational contexts: functions and variations • Jeannette Littlemore
	20 Metaphor and the representation of scientific issues: climate change in print and online media • Nelya Koteyko and Dimitrinka Atanasova
	21 Metaphor and persuasion in politics • Andreas Musolff
	22 Metaphor and persuasion in commercial advertising • Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic-Mujic
	23 Metaphor and story-telling • L. David Ritchie
	24 Metaphor, impoliteness, and offence in online communication • Zsófia Demjén and Claire Hardaker
Part V: Applications and interventions: using metaphor for problem solving
	25 Using metaphor in healthcare: mental health • Dennis Tay
	26 Using metaphor in healthcare: physical health • Zsófia Demjén and Elena Semino
	27 Using metaphor as a management tool • Linda Greve
	28 Using metaphor in the teaching of second/foreign languages • Fiona MacArthur
	29 Using metaphor for peace-building, empathy, and reconciliation • Lynne Cameron
	30 Using metaphor to influence public perceptions and policy: how metaphors can save the world • Joseph Grady
Part VI: Language, metaphor, and cognitive development
	31 Metaphor processing • Herbert L. Colston and Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
	32 Psycholinguistic approaches to metaphor acquisition and use • Albert N. Katz
	33 Metaphor acquisition and use in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders • Gabriella Rundblad
	34 Metaphor comprehension and production in a second language • Susan Nacey
Epilogue: metaphors for language and communication • Philip Eubanks
Index