Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: Penguin
Keywords: memoir, metaphorical, lying
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014200006X
ISBN-13: 9780142000069

"[Slater has] the playful mind of a philosopher and the exquisite, unique voice of a poet." (The Washington Post Book World) In this powerful and provocative new memoir, award-winning author Lauren Slater forces readers to redraw the boundary between what we know as fact and what we believe through the creation of our own personal fictions. Mixing memoir with mendacity, Slater examines memories of her youth, when after being diagnosed with a strange illness she developed seizures and neurological disturbances-and the compulsion to lie. Openly questioning the reliability of memoir itself, Slate

Author: Simon Brittan
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Keywords: language, plato, present, metaphorical, interpreting, symbol, allegory, poetry
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0813921570
ISBN-13: 9780813921570

Dealing with poetry is frequently problematic for the university teacher and student: although undergraduates are usually responsive to discussions about drama and prose, poetry often silences the classroom. Unless a poem provides references easily applicable to their own lives, many students feel they can’t relate to the piece and are stymied. In particular, allegorical poetry produces tensions among the desire to find the meanings of the poet’s symbolism, the fear of voicing a "wrong" interpretation, and a natural objection to perceived restrictions on interpretive freedom. Poetr

Author: Eve Sweetser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: structure, cambridge, studies, linguistics, semantic, aspects, pragmatics, metaphorical, cultural, etymology
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1991-07-26
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521424429
ISBN-13: 9780521424424

This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser’s argument shows that they can be analyzed both readily and systematically. Meaning relationships in general cannot be understood independently of human cognitive structure, including the metaphorical and cultural aspects of that structure. Sweetser shows that both lexical polysemy and pragmatic ambiguity are shaped by our metaphorical folk

Author: Zdravko Radman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: metaphor, philosophie, und, wissenschaft, content, cognitive, point, view, multidisciplinary, approach, metaphorical
Number of Pages: 460
Published: 1996-01
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 3110145545
ISBN-13: 9783110145540

Author: Reka Benczes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: noun, combinations, human, cognitive, processing, metonymical, compounding, english, semantics, metaphorical, creative
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2006-11-08
List price: $158.00
ISBN-10: 9027223734
ISBN-13: 9789027223739

Authors:Martin J. Gannon, Rajnandini (Raj) K. Pillai,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: nations, clusters, diversity, continents, journeys, global, cultures, metaphorical, understanding
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2009-05-04
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 1412957893
ISBN-13: 9781412957892

“This is a significant book... for a multitude of audiences, including scholars, practitioners, students, expatriates, travelers, and those who are simply interested in culture... This book is also an ideal reference tool, since the metaphors are easy to remember yet rich in contextual value and are presented in a logical structure for quick consultation. Overall, this book is enormously appealing, genuinely useful, and a worthy addition to any collection.” -Thunderbird International Business Review (2002) In Understanding Global Cultures, Fourth Edition, authors Martin J. Gannon and Rajn