Cognitive Explorations into Metaphor and Metonymy

Springing from a symposium at the University of Heidelberg, this volume is comprised of papers by lecturers, doctoral students, and graduates. The editors and contributors present a plurality of perspectives and techniques vis-a-vis current cognitive-linguistic study of metaphor and metonymy. They illustrate several strands that have evolved over the last three decades including conceptual metaphor/metonymy and discourse and sub-discourse metaphors that illustrate the wide range of domains and topics to which metaphor-and-metonymy-based research can be applied. There are 17 essays, some of which are: metaphor and metonymy in the conceptual system; corpus-based analysis of conceptual metaphors of HAPPINESS in Russian and English; the metaphor of the “body politic” across languages and cultures; the concept of the STATE in Hungarian political discourse; metaphors on the territorial changes of post-Trianon Hungary; cognitive metaphor and the “Arab Spring”; the conception of diseases in the persuasive sections of Hungarian medical recipes from the 16th and 17th centuries. There are references, figures, and tables. There is no index. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Frank Polzenhagen and Stefanie Vogelbacher teach linguistics at the English Department of Heidelberg University (Germany).
Sonja Kleinke is professor of linguistics at this department.
Zoltan Kovecses is professor of linguistics at the Department of American Studies of Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.