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- ISBN 9783631579572
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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The papers in this volume discuss pivotal issues pertaining to the linguistic approaches to metaphors from theoretical and applied points of view. Some contributions utilize the framework of cognitive linguists to validate their descriptive models, showing that the figurative language is present in the everyday lives of people. Some present the opinion that metaphors may be useful for educational purposes explaining the nature of directly inapproachable objects. There are, however, studies that provide evidence for the reverse processes where the formation of conceptual metaphors reflects personal experiences stipulated by education. Metaphors also used to be studied as persuasive tools which take part in the creative molding of political identities. Furthermore, there are experimental studies in which the figurative thought model is revised by doubting whether conceptual metaphors indeed become automatically activated in the course of processing figurative language, or which suggest that the frequency count of literal senses of dictionary words may serve as a guide for labeling the source domains of conceptual metaphors in the processing of linguistic expression.
The Editors: Zdzisław Wąsik is Professor of Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań (Poland) and Rector of Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław. He has published numerous articles and books in the area of general linguistics, semiotics, ecology of languages, and the history of linguistic thought in Poland, among them Epistemological Perspectives on Linguistic Semiotics (Peter Lang, 2003).
Tomasz Komendziński is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nicolaus University in Toruń (Poland). He is the author of one book and articles on the American philosophy, the philosophy of humanistic sciences, pragmatism, semiotics, and the cognitive studies of language.
Tomasz Komendziński is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Nicolaus University in Toruń (Poland). He is the author of one book and articles on the American philosophy, the philosophy of humanistic sciences, pragmatism, semiotics, and the cognitive studies of language.
