Once considered a stylistic issue, metaphor is now considered a critical component of
everyday and specialized language and most importantly, a fundamental mechanism of …

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful
exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers …

Metaphor is recognised as an important way of thinking–constructing analogies and making
connections between ideas–and an important way of using language–to explain abstract …

Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance as well as the
ubiquity of metaphor in language. Despite this, the ability of second language learners to …

Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative
extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ …

In this chapter, I study the thesis that conceptual metaphors emerge from the interaction
between body and culture. While the body is a potentially universal source for emerging …

Since the publication of Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By in 1980, and
subsequent books outlining Conceptual Metaphor Theory (eg, Johnson, 1987; Lakoff, 1987) …

Metaphor makes things exciting and understandable and, as such, has been applied to
education since time immemorial. However, education is now an enormous area and the …

Recent research in cognitive linguistics has shown that idiomatic phrases are
decomposable and analyzable and that the individual words in idiomatic phrases …

The literary imagination may take flight on the wings of metaphor, but hard-headed scientists
are just as likely as doe-eyed poets to reach for a metaphor when the descriptive need …