Researching and Applying Metaphor

by Graham Low, Jack C. Richards, Michael H. Long

Book Overview

Research into metaphor has become one of the fastest-growing and important areas of language research over the past twenty years, and metaphor is now recognized as central to language and language use. The implications of these findings are only just beginning to be felt in applied linguistics and this is designed to convey the excitement of metaphor study to a wider applied linguistic audience of researchers, trainers, programme developers and postgraduate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521649641
• ISBN13: 9780521649643
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"