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

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this
textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …

Corpora are widely used in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame
corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part …

A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that
distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical …

This textbook introduces students to the ways in which techniques from corpus linguistics
can be used to aid sociolinguistic research. Corpus linguistics shares with variationist …

A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …

Extracting hidden information from human mobility patterns is one of the long-standing
challenges of urban studies. In addition, exploring the relationship between urban functional …

Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive.
Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer …

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …