Where Metaphors Come from: Reconsidering Context in Metaphor

by Zoltan Kovecses and Zoltán Kövecses

Book Overview

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zolt n K vecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190656719
• ISBN13: 9780190656713
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"