Introducing Metaphor

by Murray Knowles, Rosamund Moon

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation. Rosamund Moon and Murray Knowles, draw on a wide selection of material to explore metaphor in relation to text, discourse and society. Linguistic metaphor and literary metaphor are examined across a range of contexts, such as politics, sport and advertising, whilst literary metaphor is demonstrated through authentic extracts from fiction and poetry. A final section covering non-verbal metaphor looks at metaphor in art, cinema and music.

Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Izzy]

i resented this

[Jeremy Butterfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an introduction to a huge & fascinating field (at least for me), you can't really beat this. Its main market is university students, so perhaps not a fun or bedtime read. However, the explanation is really clear and the examples and analysis are spot on. What's more, the reading list directs you to readily available titles. As your starter pack, pretty good value.