Metaphor networks : the comparative evolution of figurative language /
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Author / Creator: | Trim, Richard, 1950- |
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Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. |
Description: | xv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6629951 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Synchronic Networking
- 1. The Role of Cognition
- 1.1. Historical origins
- 1.2. Defining metaphor
- 1.3. The history of ideas on approaches to metaphor and cognitive science
- 1.4. Prototype metaphor
- 1.5. Metaphor scenarios
- 2. Universal Trends
- 2.1. Conceptual metaphor and linguistic form
- 2.2. The body and universal metaphor
- 2.3. The drugs metaphors network
- 2.4. The cross-language dimension
- 2.5. The universality of personification
- 3. Culture-specific Conceptualisation
- 3.1. Universals and culture
- 3.2. The American cultural model of marriage
- 3.3. Cultural transfer of metaphor
- 3.4. Interaction between language and cultural environment
- 3.5. Determining universal or cultural sources
- 3.6. Colour metaphors
- 4. Conceptual Equivalence and Translation
- 4.1. Translation options
- 4.2. Traditional views of translatability
- 4.3. The Business Corporation - Family model
- Part II. The Diachronic Dimension
- 5. Cultural Patterns of the Past
- 5.1. New perspectives from a diachronic viewpoint
- 5.2. Diachronic cultural patterns
- 5.3. Cultural history of the Business Corporation = Family model
- 6. Metaphor and Semantic Networks
- 6.1. Semantic fields and polysemy in meaning change
- 6.2. Vagueness and ambiguity
- 6.3. Centralised meaning in metaphor networks
- 6.4. Random polysemous features
- 6.5. Chronological polysemy in diachronic change
- 6.6. Regularity in change
- 6.7. Unidirectional change
- 6.8. Chaining in semantic fields
- 7. Metaphor Paths in Base Concepts
- 7.1. Diachronic conceptual networking
- 7.2. The metaphor path of Flatness
- 7.3. The metaphor path of Smoothness
- 7.4. Binary concepts: Tight/Loose
- 7.5. Complex systems: Dryness
- 8. Germanic Influences in Old English
- 8.1. Long-term metaphor
- 8.2. Short-term Germanic influences
- 8.3. Links to other Germanic languages
- 8.4. Collocational interchangeability in Germanic origins
- 8.5. Cultural influence and saliency
- 8.6. Diachronic saliency
- 9. Metaphor Death
- 9.1. Problems of definition
- 9.2. Patterns of metaphor death
- 9.3. Regeneration of metaphors
- 10. Historical Mindsets
- 10.1. Similarities between time-specific and culture-specific models
- 10.2. Attitudes towards imagery through time
- 10.3. Changing attitudes in long-term models: Ancient Greece
- 10.4. Religious mindsets
- Part III. Historical Networks
- 11. The Evolution of Love Metaphors: a Case Study
- 11.1. Exploring medieval metaphor
- 11.2. The structure of emotions
- 11.3. Concepts of love
- 11.4. The historical networking of love metaphors
- 11.5. Matches between Middle and modern English
- 11.6. Medieval courtly love
- 11.7. Time-specific saliency in English medieval metaphor
- 12. Latinate-based Origins in English Medieval Metaphor
- 12.1. Literature as a record of metaphor evolution
- 12.2. Medieval French sources
- 12.3. Medieval Italian sources
- 12.4. Chaucer and Boccaccio
- 12.5. Petrarch
- 12.6. Latinate sources in Antiquity
- 12.7. Metaphor links to the classical period
- 13. Historical Models of Love Metaphors
- 13.1. Literary paths in metaphor creation
- 13.2. Long-term models of love
- 13.3. Long-term models of love with variable cultural connotations
- 13.4. Time specificity: models of diachronic saliency
- 13.5. Conventionalised love metaphors
- 13.6. Metaphor death in love
- 13.7. The overall picture
- References
- Index