Metaphor

Embodied Cognition and Discourse

Metaphor theory has shifted from asking whether metaphor is “conceptual” or

“linguistic” to debating whether it is “embodied” or “discursive.” Although
recent work in the social and cognitive sciences has yielded clear opportunities
to resolve that dispute, the divide between discourse- and cognition-oriented
approaches has remained. To unite the field, this book brings together leading
metaphor researchers from a number of disciplines. It collects major arguments
and presents a wide variety of empirical evidence, placing special emphasis on
the embodiment and sociocultural embeddedness of cognition, as well as the
multimodal and social-interactive nature of communication. It shows that
metaphor theory cannot but profit from an approach that takes multiple per-
spectives into consideration and tries to account for findings yielded by
multiple methodologies. By doing so, it works toward a dynamic, multidimen-
sional, socio-cognitive model of metaphor that goes beyond what research
traditions have separately achieved.

beate hampe received a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from Jena University

(Germany) and was appointed Professor of Language and its Structure at the
University of Erfurt (Germany) in 2009, where she currently teaches English
linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and corpus linguistics. Hampe has worked on
various topics in image schema theory, conceptual metaphor theory, and cogni-
tive usage-based construction grammar. She is the author of Superlative Verbs
(2002) and the editor of From Perception to Meaning: Image Schemas in
Cognitive Linguistics (2005).

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 Metaphor
Embodied Cognition and Discourse

Edited by
Beate Hampe
Universität Erfurt, Germany

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Title: Metaphor : embodied cognition and discourse / edited by Beate Hampe,
Universität Erfurt, Germany.
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