Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the contemporary theory of metaphor : recent developments and applications /

This paper aims to study the applications of Metaphorical Pattern Analysis (MPA) to contrastive analysis and translation by researching the differences in the metaphorical mappings instantiated by the English words 'crisis' and 'recession' and their translation equivalents in Spa...

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Other Authors: Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, Peña Cervel, M. Sandra, Pérez Hernández, Lorena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 56.
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Table of Contents:
  • Recent developments in metaphor theory: Are the new views rival ones? / Zoltán Kövecses
  • The contemporary theory of metaphor
  • now new and improved! / Gerard J. Steen
  • Awareness in metaphor understanding: 'The Lingering of the Literal' / Hanna Stöver
  • Productivity of Spanish verb-noun compounds: Patterns of metonymy and metaphor / Jiyoung Yoon
  • Motion metaphors in discourse construction / Joaquín Garrido
  • The adaptation of metaphors across genres / Elena Semino
  • Multimodal metonymy and metaphor as complex discourse resources for creativity in ICT advertising discourse / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic
  • How patent can patents be?: Exploring the impact of figurative language on the engineering patents genre / Carmen Sancho Guinda and Ismael Arinas Pellón
  • Euphemistic conceptual metaphors in epitaphs from Highgate Cemetery / Eliecer Crespo Fernández
  • Cognitive semantic ways of teaching figurative phrases: An assessment / Frank Boers
  • Translation Studies and the cognitive theory of metaphor / Eva Samaniego Fernández
  • Distinguishing near-synonyms and translation equivalents in metaphorical terms: Crisis vs. recession in English and Spanish / Ana Maria Rojo Lopez.