Introducing Metaphor

Rosamund Moon is a lecturer in English Language in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. Her specialist teaching areas are lexis, lexicography, and the history of the language, and she has recently been involved in a research project on metaphor. Her publications mainly concern aspects of lexis, especially phraseology, and lexicography, and they include her book Fixed Expressions and English: A Corpus-based Approach (1998), OUP.Murray Knowles is a lecturer in English Language and Literature in the department of English, University of Birmingham. His specialist teaching areas are lexis, sociolinguistics, language in literature and children's literature, and they include his book - co-written with Kirsten Malmkjaer - Language and Control in Children's Literature (1996), Routledge.

'A valuable and enlightening contribution ... an excellent introductory textbook to metaphor studies, accessible both to people who are being introduced to the study of metaphor for the very first time and to people well-versed in metaphor studies ... this book is strongly recommended ... it is a real contribution to metaphor studies.' – Denis L. Jamet, The LINGUIST List'Knowles and Moon’s Introducing Metaphor remains a valuable and enlightening contribution and, above all, an excellent introductory textbook to metaphor studies, accessible both to people who are being introduced to the study of metaphor for the very first time and to people well-versed in metaphor studies, or just to people interested in the cognitive function of metaphors. Overall, this book is strongly to be recommended in so far as it is a real contribution to metaphor studies, but also inasmuch as it helps our understanding of the pervasive role played by the metaphors we live by.' - Denis L. Ramet, Lexis

• Chapter 1 INTRODUCING METAPHOR; Chapter 2 METAPHOR, WORDS, AND MEANINGS; Chapter 3 SYSTEMATIZING METAPHOR; Chapter 4 METONYMY; Chapter 5 UNDERSTANDING METAPHOR; Chapter 6 METAPHOR ACROSS LANGUAGES; Chapter 7 METAPHOR, IDEOLOGY, AND SOCIAL CONTEXT; Chapter 8 LITERARY METAPHOR; Chapter 9 NON-VERBAL METAPHOR; Chapter 10 CODA; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;