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Confronting metaphor in use [electronic resource] : an applied linguistic approach / edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, Marilda C. Cavalcanti.

Contributor(s): Zanotto, Mara Sophia | Cameron, Lynne | Cavalcanti, Marilda do Couto | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond: new ser., 173.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2008Description: vi, 315 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): MetaphorGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 418 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Opening Pandora's box / Mara Sophia Zanotto and Dieli Vesaro Palma -- Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk / Lynne Cameron -- Adding sound to the picture / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers -- Metaphor and positioning in academic book reviews / Graham Low -- Brothers in arms / Veronika Koller -- Metaphor probabilities in corpora / Tony Berber Sardinha -- Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory / Alice Deignan -- Exploring metaphors in corpora / Solange Vereza -- Young learners' understanding of figurative language / Ana M. Piquer-Piriz -- The relationship between associative thinking, analogical reasoning, image formation and metaphoric extension strategies / Jeannette Littlemore -- The awakening of Sleeping Beauty / João A. Telles -- En route through metaphors / Marilda C. Cavalcanti and Ana Cecília Bizon -- School teachers in favela contexts / Fernanda Coelho Liberali -- Professional knowledge landscape / Maximina F. Freire.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Opening Pandora's box / Mara Sophia Zanotto and Dieli Vesaro Palma -- Metaphor shifting in the dynamics of talk / Lynne Cameron -- Adding sound to the picture / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers -- Metaphor and positioning in academic book reviews / Graham Low -- Brothers in arms / Veronika Koller -- Metaphor probabilities in corpora / Tony Berber Sardinha -- Corpus linguistic data and conceptual metaphor theory / Alice Deignan -- Exploring metaphors in corpora / Solange Vereza -- Young learners' understanding of figurative language / Ana M. Piquer-Piriz -- The relationship between associative thinking, analogical reasoning, image formation and metaphoric extension strategies / Jeannette Littlemore -- The awakening of Sleeping Beauty / João A. Telles -- En route through metaphors / Marilda C. Cavalcanti and Ana Cecília Bizon -- School teachers in favela contexts / Fernanda Coelho Liberali -- Professional knowledge landscape / Maximina F. Freire.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.