How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor … Weiterlesen
Die Metapher, die immer da ist: Studien zur Literaturtheorie und TextanalyseFiktionalität und Poetizität, Formen des Fantastischen in der Literatur, Psychologie und Literaturwissenschaft, Literarische Imagologie und Stereotypenforschung – diese Studien befassen sich mit Grundfragen der Allgemeinen Literaturwissenschaft in theoretischen Darstellungen und … Weiterlesen
Metaphor and Senses: The Synamet Corpus: A Polish Resource for Synesthetic MetaphorsThe book deals with the synesthetic metaphors in Synamet – a semantically and grammatically annotated corpus. The texts included in the corpus are excerpted from blogs devoted to, among … Weiterlesen
Perception metaphorsMetaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let … Weiterlesen