Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context / Zóltan Kövecses.

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics . The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of em...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (141 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Recent Challenges to Conceptual Metaphor Theory
  • 2. Metaphorical Meaning Making: Discourse, Language, and Culture
  • 3. Metaphor, Culture, and Embodiment
  • 4. Emotions I: A Cognitive Linguistic Theory
  • 5. Emotions II: Life and Happiness
  • 6. Metonymy: A New Look
  • 7. A New View of Metaphorical Creativity I
  • 8. A New View of Metaphorical Creativity II
  • 9. Metaphor and Metonymy in Language Teaching
  • 10. Theories of Metaphor: A Synthesis
  • About the Series Editor
  • Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers.