Metaphor in use : context, culture, and communication / edited by Fiona MacArthur [and others].

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Metaphoric language is very much the product of human action, and many scholars now claim that metaphor in language arises from metaphors in thought. But the reasons for why we think metaphorically and speak (gesture) in these ways may be rooted in principles of self-organization that describe the existence, and forms, of many other animate and inanimate things, ranging from snowflakes to termite nests. This chapter describes the benefits of looking at metaphor from a self-organizational point of view, known as dynamical systems theory, and suggests how this perspective can solve several long-

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Contexts of research -- 1. assessment of metaphor retrieval methods / Tony Berber Sardinha -- 2. Metaphor in discourse: Beyond the boundaries of MIP / Anna Kaal -- 3. Metaphor identification in Dutch discourse / Trijntje Pasma -- 4. Locating metaphor candidates in specialized corpora using raw frequency and keyword lists / Gill Philip -- pt. 2 Contexts of production -- 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English: Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter? / Marlene Johansson Falck -- 6. Metaphorical expressions in L2 production: The importance of the text topic in corpus research / Anne Golden -- 7. Researching linguistic metaphor in native, non-native, and expert writing / Isabel Verdaguer-Clavera -- pt. 3 Contexts of interpretation -- 8. Appreciation and interpretation of visual metaphors in advertising across three European countries / Rob Le Pair -- 9. English native speakers' interpretations of culture-bound Japanese figurative expressions / Masumi Azuma -- 10. limits of comprehension in cross-cultural metaphor: Networking in drugs terminology / Richard Trim -- pt. 4 Metaphor, topic, and discourse -- 11. Conceptual types of terminological metaphors in marine biology: An English-Spanish contrastive analysis from an experientialist perspective / Jose Manuel Urena -- 12. Gestures, language, and what they reveal about thought: A music teacher's use of metaphor in Taiwan / Ya-Chin Chuang -- pt. 5 Metaphor and culture -- 13. Armed with patience, suffering an emotion: The conceptualization of life, morality, and emotion in Turkish / Mustafa Aksan -- 14. Trolls / Christina Alm-Arvius -- 15. computational exploration of creative similes / Tony Veale -- pt. 6 Afterword and prospects for future research -- 16. Metaphors, snowflakes, and termite nests: How nature creates such beautiful things / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

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