Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Jeannette Littlemore
yhteensä 23 hakutulosta
Unpacking Creativity
Figurative communication (the use of metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony) provides economy of expression, clarity, persuasiveness, politeness, evaluation, and communication of …
Many Faces of Creativity
Creative metaphor has been of central interest to the cognitive linguistic research community in recent years. However, little is known about what propels people to use metaphor in …
Doing Applied Linguistics
Doing Applied Linguistics provides a concise, lively and accessible introduction to the field of applied linguistics for readers who have little or no prior knowledge of the …
Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment
By exploring the associations that people make between emotions and colours, looking at how they vary across languages, and exploring the explanations that people provide for the …
The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics
The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures …
Metonymy
'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we …
Unpacking Creativity
Figurative communication (the use of metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole and irony) provides economy of expression, clarity, persuasiveness, politeness, evaluation, and communication of …
Metaphors in the Mind
Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to …
Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment
Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics
The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics. Written by leading figures …
Creative Metaphor, Evaluation, and Emotion in Conversations about Work
This book explores the roles played by creative and conventional metaphor in expressing positive and negative evaluation within a particular workplace, drawing on interviews with …