Author : Elisabetta Gola,Francesca Ervas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267580
Metaphor and Communication by Elisabetta Gola,Francesca Ervas Pdf
This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that differentiate it from its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? And how could these specific properties of communication change our understanding of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? The authors of the papers collected in this volume offer answers to these questions that raise new interests in metaphor and communication.