Re-Viewing Space : : Figurative Language in Architects´ Assessment of Built Space / / Rosario Caballero.
This book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in building reviews, and the conceptual mappings that motivate them. The genre perspective adopted throughout the work offers a view of figurative language that considers its use in the discussion...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Art and Architecture 2000-2014 (EN) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- I-VI
- Acknowledgements
- Table of contents
- Chapter 1 What this book says about metaphor, architects, and the assessment of building design
- Chapter 2 Architectus Verborum. An introduction to architectural discourse
- Chapter 3 The cognitive and rhetorical dimensions of metaphor
- Chapter 4 Exploring metaphor in the building review genre
- Chapter 5 Metaphorical language and its underlying schemas in architectural assessment
- Chapter 6 The linguistic realization of metaphor in architectural discourse
- Chapter 7 The contribution of figurative language to re-viewing space
- Chapter 8 Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- Subject index
- 263-264