Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context - Hardcover

Strack, Daniel C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498547907 ISBN 13: 9781498547901

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2019

Synopsis

<span>Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context</span><span> unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks “context,” and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.</span>

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About the Author

Daniel C. Strack is professor in the English Department at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498547907
• ISBN 13: 9781498547901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196