Metaphor and Figurative Language, (6 Volume Set)

With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series.

Metaphor and Figurative Language is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential library purchase and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital reference work and research tool.

Volume I : Theoretical issues

Part 1 : Foundations
Chapter 1 : Metaphor and Figurative Language
Chapter 2 : Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria
Chapter 3 : Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasia Disturbances : Fundamentals of Language

Part 2 : Philosophy of Metaphor
Chapter 4 : Metaphor : Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society
Chapter 5 : What Metaphors Mean, On Metaphor
Chapter 6 : How Metaphors Work : A Reply to Donald Davidson : Critical Inquiry
Chapter 7 : Logic and Conversation, Speech Acts : Syntax and Semantics
Chapter 8 : Metaphor : Expression and Meaning : Studies in The Theory of Speech Acts

Part 3 : Beyond Similarity and Class Inclusion
Chapter 9 : Understanding Metaphorical Comparison : Beyond Similarity : Psychological Review
Chapter 10 : Metaphors and Categories : Poetics Today

Part 4 : Conceptual Metaphor
Chapter 11 : The Cognitive Model of Anger Inherent in American English, Cultural Models in Language and Thought
Chapter 12 : Theories are Buildings Revisited : Cognitive Linguistics

Part 5 : Blending Theory
Chapter 13 : Conceptual Integration Networks : Cognitive Science

Part 6 : Relevance Theory
Chapter 14 : Loose Talk : Proceedings of The Aristotelian Society
Chapter 15 : Metaphor, Ad Hoc Concepts and Word Meaning : More Questions than Answers : UCL Working Papers in Linguistics
Chapter 16 : Metaphor, Relevance and The "Emergent Property" Issue : Mind & Language

Part 7 : Metaphor and Context
Chapter 17 : Interpreting Metaphors and Idioms : Some Effects of Context on Comprehension : Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
Chapter 18 : Spilling The Beans on Understanding and Memory for Idioms in Conversation : Memory & Cognition
Chapter 19 : Interpreting Figurative Statements : Speaker Occupation can Change Metaphor into Irony : Metaphor and Symbolic Activity

Volume II : Typology of Figurative Language

Part 8 : Metaphor and Simile
Chapter 20 : Why do Metaphors Seem Deeper than Similes?, Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of The Cognitive Science Society
Chapter 21 : Reversibility, Aptness, and The Conventionality of Metaphors and Similes : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 22 : On The Relation Between Metaphor and Simile : When Comparison Fails : Mind and Language

Part 9 : Metonymy
Chapter 23 : Metonymy in The Pipeline, Perspectives on English : Studies in Honour of Professor Emma Vorlat
Chapter 24 : Towards a Theory of Metonymy, Metonymy in Language and Thought
Chapter 25 : Where Does Metonymy Stop? Senses, Facets and Active Zones : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 26 : An Alternative Account of The Interpretation of Referential Metonymy and Metaphor, Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast

Part 10 : Pictorial Metaphor
Chapter 27 : Metaphor in Pictures : Perception
Chapter 28 : Pictorial Representation and Metaphor in Visual Language Design : Journal of Visual Languages & Computing
Chapter 29 : Pictorial and Multimodal Metaphor in Commercials, Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric

Part 11 : Conventional Metaphors and Idioms
Chapter 30 : "Conventional" and "Dead" Metaphors Revisited, The Ubiquity of Metaphor
Chapter 31 : Intuitions about The Transparency of Idioms : Can One Keep a Secret by Spilling The Beans? : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 32 : Metaphor and Convention : Cognitive Linguistics

Part 12 : Time and Space
Chapter 33 : Metaphoric Structuring : Understanding Time Through Spatial Metaphors
Chapter 34 : Fictive Motion as Cognitive Simulation : Memory & Cognition
Chapter 35 : As Time Goes By : Evidence for Two Systems in Processing Space Time Metaphors : Language and Cognitive Processes

Part 13 : Embodied Metaphor
Chapter 36 : Embodied Experience and Linguistic Meaning : Brain and Language

Volume III : Literary and Cross-cultural Perspectives

Part 14 : Metaphor in Literary Theory
Chapter 37 : Symbol and Association : Hudson Review
Chapter 38 : The Metaphorical Twist : Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Chapter 39 : The Motive for Metaphor : The Educated Imagination
Chapter 40 : Metaphor, Paradox, and Stereotype in Poetic Language : British Journal of AesThetics
Chapter 41 : On Understanding Poetic Metaphor : Poetics
Chapter 42 : Semantic Fields and The Structure of Metaphor : Studies in Language
Chapter 43 : Literary and Non-Literary Aspects of Metaphor : Poetics Today
Chapter 44 : The Cultural Basis of Metaphor, Beyond Metaphor : The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology
Chapter 45 : Cognitive Constraints on Poetic Figures : Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter 46 : Metaphorical Expressions and Culture : An Indirect Link : Metaphor and Symbol

Part 15 : Case Studies
Chapter 47 : Marvell and The Ars Moriendi, Seventeenth-Century Imagery : Essays on The Uses of Figurative Language from Donne to Farquhar
Chapter 48 : Metaphor, Simile and Cognition in Golding’s "The Inheritors" : Language and Literature
Chapter 49 : The Metaphor Colin is a Child in Ian McEwan’s, Harold Pinter’s, and Paul Schrader’s "The Comfort of Strangers" : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 50 : A Shotgun Wedding : Co-occurrence of War and Marriage Metaphors in Discourse of Mergers and Acquisitions : Metaphor and Symbol

Part 16 : Cross-cultural Perspectives
Chapter 51 : The Cross-Cultural Study of Metaphor : Towards a Theoretical and Practical Analysis of Figurative Speech : Communication & Cognition
Chapter 52 : Metaphorical Expressions of Anger and Happiness in English and Chinese : Metaphor and Symbolic Activity
Chapter 53 : Animal Metaphors and Animal Symbols : Case Studies : Figurative Language : Cross-Cultural and Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Chapter 54 : Formulaic Language in English Lingua Franca, Explorations in Pragmatics : Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultural Aspects

Volume IV : Cognition and Metaphor

Part 17 : Processing
Chapter 55 : On Understanding Metaphor : The Role of Context : Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior
Chapter 56 : The Comprehension of Idioms : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 57 : Discourse Factors that Influence Online Reading of Metaphor and Irony : Discourse Processes
Chapter 58 : Obtaining a Figurative Interpretation of a Word : Support for Underspecification : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 59 : The Role of Suppression and Enhancement in Understanding Metaphors : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 60 : Suppression in Metaphor Interpretation : Differences Between Meaning Selection and Meaning Construction : Journal of Semantics

Part 18 : Degrees of Salience
Chapter 61 : The Career of Metaphor : Psychological Review
Chapter 62 : Understanding Figurative and Literal Language : The Graded Salience HypoThesis : Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter 63 : On The Priority of Salient Meanings : Studies of Literal and Figurative Language : Journal of Pragmatics

Part 19 : Is Metaphor Unique?
Chapter 64 : Literal Meaning and Psychological Theory : Cognitive Science
Chapter 65 : Defending Literal Meaning : Cognitive Science
Chapter 66 : On The Functional Equivalence of Literal and Metaphorical Interpretations in Discourse : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 67 : The Alleged Priority of Literal Meaning : Cognitive Science
Chapter 68 : Conventional Language : How Metaphorical is it? : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 69 : Weapons of Mass Distraction : Optimal Innovation and Pleasure Ratings : Metaphor and Symbol

Part 20 : Aptness
Chapter 70 : Aptness in Metaphor : Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 71 : Aptness Predicts Preference for Metaphors or Similes, as Well as Recall Bias : Psychonomics Bulletin and Review
Chapter 72 : Roosters, Robins, and Alarm Clocks : Aptness and Conventionality in Metaphor Comprehension : Journal of Memory and Language
Chapter 73 : Effects of Familiarity and Aptness on Metaphor Processing : Journal of Experimental Psychology : Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Part 21 : Developmental Aspects
Chapter 74 : Conceptual Domains and The Acquisition of Metaphor : Cognitive Development
Chapter 75 : Children’s Understanding of Nonliteral Language : Journal of AesThetic Education
Chapter 76 : The Effects of Different Tasks on The Comprehension and Production of Idioms in Children : Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volume V : Brain and Metaphor

Part 22 : Is The Right Hemisphere Uniquely Involved in Metaphor Comprehension?
Chapter 77 : The Comprehension of Metaphor in Brain-Damaged Patients
Chapter 78 : The Role of The Right Hemisphere in The Interpretation of Figurative Aspects of Language : A Positron Emission Tomography Activation Study
Chapter 79 : Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Metaphor Comprehension and OTher Figurative Language : Metaphor and Symbolic Activity
Chapter 80 : Bilateral Brain Processes for Comprehending Natural Language : Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Chapter 81 : Left but not Right Temporal Involvement in Opaque Idiom Comprehension : A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study : Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Chapter 82 : Metaphorical vs : Literal Word Meanings : fMRI Evidence Against a Selective Role of The Right Hemisphere : NeuroImage
Chapter 83 : A Special Role for The Right Hemisphere in Metaphor Comprehension? ERP Evidence from Hemifield Presentation : Brain Research
Chapter 84 : Deriving Meaning : Distinct Neural Mechanisms for Metaphoric, Literal, and Non-Meaningful Sentences : Brain and Language
Chapter 85 : Understanding Metaphors : Is The Right Hemisphere Uniquely Involved? : Brain and Language
Chapter 86 : Right Hemisphere Metaphor Processing? Characterizing The Lateralization Semantic Processes : Brain and Language

Part 23 : Effects of Degree of Salience
Chapter 87 : Differential Effects of Right- and Left-Hemisphere Damage on Understanding Sarcasm and Metaphor : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 88 : Functional MRI of Conventional and Anomalous Metaphors in Mandarin Chinese : Brain and Language
Chapter 89 : Timing The Metaphoric Brain : Contribution of ERPs and Source Localization to Understanding Figurative Language, Brain Research in Language
Chapter 90 : Brain Correlates of Discourse Processing : An fMRI Investigation of Irony and Metaphor Comprehension : Neuropsychologia
Chapter 91 : Hemispheric Differences in Processing The Literal Interpretation of Idioms : Converging Evidence from Behavioral and fMRI Studies

Part 24 : Clinical Populations
Chapter 92 : The Right Hemisphere Communication Battery : Results from Commissurotomy Patients and Normal Subjects Reveal Only Partial Right Hemisphere Contribution : Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
Chapter 93 : Comprehension of Metaphors and Idioms in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease : A Longitudinal Study
Chapter 94 : Metaphor Comprehension in Alzheimer’s Disease : Novelty Matters : Brain and Language
Chapter 95 : Assessing Quality of Metaphor Interpretation by Right Hemisphere Damaged Patients : Brain and Language
Chapter 96 : The Comprehension of Metaphors in Schizophrenia : Psychopathology
Chapter 97 : Neural Correlates of Metaphor Processing in Schizophrenia : NeuroImage
Chapter 98 : Asperger Syndrome : Tests of Right Hemisphere Functioning and Interhemispheric Communication : Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Part 25 : The Effect of Task
Chapter 99 : How Metaphors Influence Semantic Relatedness Judgments : The Role of The Right Frontal Cortex
Chapter 100 : Laterality in Metaphor Processing : Lack of Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging for The Right Hemisphere Theory : Brain and Language

Part 26 : Methodologies
Chapter 101 : The Role of The Right Hemisphere in Processing Nonsalient Metaphorical Meanings : Application of Principal Components Analysis to fMRI Data
Chapter 102 : One Lesson Learned : Frame Language Processing - Literal and Figurative - as a Human Brain Function : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 103 : Electrophysiological and Behavioral Measures of The Influence of Literal and Figurative Contextual Constraints on Proverb Comprehension : Brain and Language
Chapter 104 : The Role of The Right Cerebral Hemisphere in Processing Novel Metaphoric Expressions Taken From Poetry : A Divided Visual Field Study : Neuropsychologia
Chapter 105 : The Causal Role of The Right Cerebral Hemisphere in Processing Novel Metaphoric Expressions Taken from Poetry : A TMS Study : Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Chapter 106 : Neural Activity Associated with Metaphor Comprehension : Spatial Analysis : Neuroscience Letters

Volume VI : Empirical Analysis of Figurative Language

Part 27 : Corpus-Based Analyses
Chapter 107 : The Distribution of Idioms in English : Studii italiani di linguistica teoretica e applicata
Chapter 108 : A Corpus Linguistic Perspective on The Relationship Between Metaphor and Metonymy
Chapter 109 : Similes and Sets : The English Preposition "Like", Jazyky a jazykoveda
Chapter 110 : Metaphoricity is Gradable, Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy
Chapter 111 : A Corpus-Based Study of Metaphors for Speech Activity in British English, Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy
Chapter 112 : A Corpus-Based Analysis of The Context Effect on Metaphor Processing, Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy

Part 28 : Applied Metaphor Studies
Chapter 113 : Generative Metaphor : A Perspective on Problem-Setting in Social Policy, Metaphor and Thought
Chapter 114 : The Conduit Metaphor : A Case of Frame Conflict in our Language about Language, Metaphor and Thought
Chapter 115 : Metaphors in The Learning of Science : A Discourse Focus : British Educational Research Journal
Chapter 116 : Applied-Linguistic Comments on Metaphor Identification : Language and Literature

Part 29 : Computational Approaches
Chapter 117 : Metaphor : An Inescapable Phenomenon in Natural-Language Comprehension, Strategies for Natural Language Processing
Chapter 118 : Preference Semantics, Ill-Formedness, and Metaphor : American Journal of Computational Linguistics
Chapter 119 : Belief Ascription, Metaphor, and Intensional Identification : Cognitive Science
Chapter 120 : An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Metaphor Understanding, ‘Metaphor : A Multidisciplinary Approach : special issue of Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
Chapter 121 : Artificial Intelligence, Figurative Language and Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics : Current Application and Future Perspectives
Chapter 122 : MetaBank : A Knowledge-Base of Metaphoric Language Conventions : Computational Intelligence
Chapter 123 : Computational Approaches to Figurative Language : Metaphor and Symbol
Chapter 124 : Catching Metaphors : Proceedings of The 3rd Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding
Chapter 125 : Corpus-Driven Metaphor Harvesting : Proceedings of The NAACL/HLT Workshop on Figurative Language
Chapter 126 : An Analogy-Oriented Type Hierarchy for Linguistic Creativity : Journal of Knowledge-Based Systems
Chapter 127 : Re-Representation and Creative Analogy : A Lexico-Semantic Perspective : New Generation Computing