Titlebook: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis; Jonathan Charteris-Black Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Metaphor in American Presidential Speeches — with a view to comparing them with the British party political manifestos examined in Chapter 4. Political speeches are a very distinct type of political discourse because their purpose is to offer an idealised ‘Vision’ of the social world; therefore, metaphor choice is likely to be . and conscio

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Metaphor in Sports Reportingourse and accounts for nearly half of all metaphors. This is perhaps not surprising since war has been central to cognitive approaches to metaphor since Lakoff and Johnson (1980). They proposed a conceptual metaphor . — hence: ‘Your claims are indefensible’, ‘He shot down all my arguments’ etc. — an

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Metaphor in the Old Testamenton the lexical fields that served as source domains for metaphors that occurred predominantly (or exclusively) in the Old Testament. This reveals how comparing metaphors in two different parts of a text may help us to understand fundamental differences between these parts at the level of cognitive a

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Metaphor in the Korane he was asleep, or in a trance, in a cave. It is the earliest and finest work of Classical Arabic prose and is, for Muslims, the infallible word of God (Dawood 1990: 1). The text is comprised of 114 . or ‘books’ comprising over 400 pages of text and is rather shorter than the Bible. There are a num