In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with
their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

近年来, 欧美一批学者致于把一直囿于纯语言学领域的概念隐喻研究拓展到跨学科的多模态研究
平台, 关注模态本身和模态互动的价值和意义, 隐喻和转喻的动态构建过程, 隐喻的文体维度 …

America, rock musician T. Nugent tried to rally support for the Republican candidate at a
National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis by announcing a vigorous campaign against …

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including
metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …

The concept of frames or framing, especially cast as “frame analysis,” has an established
history in public policy. Taking off from the work of Donald Schön and Martin Rein, we …

This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the
level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic …

Gestures are often taken as evidence that the body is involved in thinking and speaking
about the ideas expressed in those gestures. In this article, we present evidence drawn from …

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …