Musolff Andreas, Zinken Jörg (Editors). Metaphor and Discourse

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — xii, 269 pages. — ISBN: 0230537308.A state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspectiveThe contributors to Metaphor and Discourse present a collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background. Discourse scholars have for a long time been concerned with the methodological difficulties of identifying, annotating, and analysing metaphors, as well as with the complex relations between the embodiment of metaphorical thought on the one hand and the socio-cultural grounding of metaphorical communication on the other. A substantial body of work has grown out of these concerns over the last two decades. The present book provides a state-of-the-art overview of this lively research field, and furthermore contributes to debates in Cognitive Linguistics (and beyond) regarding tensions between conceptualist idealizations and empirically observable variation.A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding
Metaphor in Discourse: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
Metaphor, Culture, and Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence
Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomy
Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blending
Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor
Metaphor and Context: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence
Metaphors in Contemporary Public Discourses: Case Studies
Metaphor and Political Communication
Missions and Empires: Religious and Political Metaphors in Corporate Discourse
How Business Press Headlines Get Their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphor
MRSA – Portrait of a Superbug: A Media Drama in Three Acts
Metaphor Evolution in Discourse History
Shifting Identities: Metaphors of Discourse Evolution
‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be’: Linguistic Mercantilism in Renaissance France
Interpretations of the Body Politic and of Natural Bodies in Late Sixteenth-Century France
Bodies Politic and Bodies Cosmic: The Roman Stoic Theory of the ‘Two Cities’
Metaphor in the History of Ideas and Discourses: How Can We Interpret a Medieval Version of the Body−State Analogy?
Commentary
Studying Metaphor in Discourse: Some Lessons, Challenges and New Data