The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 550 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11814124
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Other authors / contributors:Gibbs, Raymond W.
ISBN:9780511438080
0511438087
0511437412
9780511437410
9780511436734
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9786611903350
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0521600863
9780521841061
0521841062
0521841062
0521600863
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.
Other form:Print version: Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521841061 0521841062