The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought
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978-0-511-43673-4
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2008
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loginThe Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thoughtoffers the most comprehensive collec-tion of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. Theseessays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expres-sion. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understand-ing, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor innonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, includingpsychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.
