Metaphor and Writing: Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication

Eubanks, Philip

ISBN 10: 0521191025 / ISBN 13: 9780521191029

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Metaphor and Writing: Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521191025
• ISBN 13: 9780521191029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing – a pattern of discourse and thought that includes ways we categorize writers and writing; stories we tell about people who write; conceptual metaphors and metonymies used both to describe and to guide writing; and familiar, yet surprisingly adaptable, conceptual blends used routinely for imagining writing situations. The book will give scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as ‘voice', ‘self', ‘clarity', ‘power', and the most basic figure of all: ‘the writer'.

About the Author

Philip Eubanks is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: The Rhetorical Constitution of Metaphor (2000).