Introducing Metaphor

by Rosamund Moon and Murray Knowles

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation. Rosamund Moon and Murray Knowles, draw on a wide selection of material to explore metaphor in relation to text, discourse and society. Linguistic metaphor and literary metaphor are examined across a range of contexts, such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415278015
• ISBN13: 9780415278010
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 7.8"