Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
3: The cognitive view of metaphor: Conceptual metaphor theory
Metaphor Analysis - Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities - Lynne Cameron
Alice Deignan [+]
University of Leeds
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Alice Deignan is Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Cobuild Guides to English 7: Metaphor (HarperCollins, 1995) and a contributor to numerous recent edited volumes on metaphor.
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An overview and critique of conceptual metaphor theory. Conceptual metaphor theory takes a cognitive view of metaphor, and, when it first emerged in the 1980's, offered a striking new way of understanding metaphor. More recently, scholars have been trying to bring language and discourse back into the picture, combining this with important cognitive developments in, and beyond, metaphor theory.