Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics

by Verena Haser

The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy. Particular emphasis is placed on the works of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, but other cognitivists are also taken into consideration.

Verena Haser proposes a new approach to the distinction between metaphor and metonymy, which contrasts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110182831
• ISBN13: 9783110182835
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary