Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful
exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers …

In the chapter, I describe the main features of what can be taken to be “standard” conceptual
metaphor theory (as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson 1980, 1999), alongside what can be …

Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities?
Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (ie, biological …

In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that
augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual …

Theories of Lexical Semantics offers a comprehensive overview of the major traditions of
word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in …

The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major
and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …

I will suggest that the English word 'anger'and its counterparts in diverse languages of the
world are based on concepts of anger that have a great deal of complexity. This conceptual …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon
(conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language …

The book analyses the conceptual and discursive traditions that underlay the Nazi use of
body, illness and parasite metaphors in their genocidal anti-Semitic ideology. Part I gives a …