The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2008
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781139931175
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781281903358, 9780511816802, 9780521841061, 9780511433764, 9780521600866
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 03/09/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Cambridge University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Communication
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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