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Title:
Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education
Author:
Cuccio, Valentina, contributor.
ISBN:
9783110549928
Physical Description:
1 online resource (VI, 325 p.)
Series:
Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 36
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- How embodied cognition still matters to metaphor studies -- Part I: Theoretical perspectives -- Metaphor and metonymy in folk and expert theories of emotion -- Metaphor and Metamorphosis -- Is language necessary to interpret visual metaphors? -- Embodied Simulation and metaphorical gestures -- Part II: Communication -- Audiovisual metaphors and metonymies of emotions and depression in moving images -- Leading the war at home and winning the race abroad: Metaphors used by President Obama to frame the fight against climate change -- Secret codes of metaphor: Anatomy of architecture -- Some observations about metaphors in specialised languages -- Part III: Science -- Classical physics as a metaphorical tool for evoking quantum world -- Integration and differentiation at the basis of metaphor: dexterity in behaviour and degeneracy in the nervous system -- Building metaphors: Constitutive narratives in science -- Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts -- Part IV: Education -- Eliciting metaphor in education research: Is it really worth the effort? -- Teaching (in) metaphors -- Metaphoricity in English L2 learners' prepositions -- Metaphor and the shaping of educational thinking -- Index
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