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Synopsis
In this ambitious and wide-ranging textbook Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them. This book:
* examines the distinction between literal and metaphorical language
* surveys the means by which metaphors are realised in texts
* locates...
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...covers areas usually neglected by recent investigations of metaphor. Lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, discourse and cognitive aspects are encompassed and literary and non-literary examples are drawn upon.
–Vimala Herman, University of Nottingham
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0415128773
- ISBN 13 9780415128773
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages376
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