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Researching Metaphors This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the feld’s focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities aforded by the study of living metaphors. The volume brings together a diverse range of researchers in the discipline towards critically examining the presuppositions of the cognitive approach. The book shines a light on living metaphors – creative interpretations of confictual meaning specifc to a text or communicative act with their own unique functions – to throw into relief long-held tenets in existing metaphor research. Chapters refect on the notion that creative metaphors spring from independent sources, not merely from metaphorical concepts, and the subsequent implications for our understanding of the relationship between linguistic forms and conceptual structures and the role of creative metaphors in organizing thought and action. Taken together, the book ofers a complementary vision of languages and fgures which integrates disparate lines of study within the cognitive paradigm with alternative perspectives for a more comprehensive portrait of metaphors. This book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the study of metaphor, including such disciplines as theoretical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics, literary studies, and philosophy of language. Michele Prandi was professor of Linguistics at the Universities of Geneva, Pavia, Bologna, and Genoa. He is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Uppsala. His main research felds are semantics of complex expressions, conditions of signifcance, natural ontology and conceptual analysis, and metaphor and fgurative language in their grammatical and conceptual aspects. Micaela Rossi is professor of French Language and Translation at the University of Genoa. Her research interests focus on the formation of new metaphorical terminologies in technical and scientifc vocabularies, as well as on the textual and discursive dynamics that determine their fxation within socio-professional communities of use. 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Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in linguistics | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This collection advocates for a more holistic picture of metaphor, extending the feld’s focus beyond the cognitive paradigm and conventional metaphorical concepts to illustrate the possibilities aforded by the study of living metaphors”—Provided by publisher. Identifers: LCCN 2022001152 (print) | LCCN 2022001153 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032025865 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032025872 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003184041 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Metaphor. | Rhetoric. | LCGFT: Essays. Classifcation: LCC P301.5.M48 R47 2022 (print) | LCC P301.5.M48 (ebook) | DDC 401/.43—dc23/eng/20220316 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022001152 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022001153 ISBN: 978-1-032-02586-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-02587-2 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-18404-1 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003184041 Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents List of contributors vii Introduction 1 MICHELE PRANDI AND MICAELA ROSSI PART 1 Bridging conventional and living metaphors 27 1 Some recent issues in conceptual metaphor theory 29 ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES 2 Creative metaphors and conceptual conficts: the requirements of consistency as ontological presuppositions 42 MARCO FASCIOLO 3 Formal syntax and textual coherence: two wellsprings for conceptual conficts 60 MICHELE PRANDI 4 Hidden reference in the creation of metaphor 77 RICHARD TRIM 5 Types of metaphors and their structure: annotation guidelines between theory and practice 91 FRANCESCA STRIK LIEVERS vi Contents PART 2 Conventional and creative metaphors in special concepts and terms 109 6 Terminological metaphors: framing for better and for worse . . . 111 RITA TEMMERMAN 7 Creating metaphors in specialised languages: choice criteria for the success of metaphorical terms 132 MICAELA ROSSI 8 Refections on metaphors and models in connection with theory building in economics 148 CATHERINE RESCHE 9 Specialized concepts and the career of metaphors: the diachronic development of ANGER IS A HOT FLUID and LOVE IS A JOURNEY from Latin to Old Italian 161 CHIARA FEDRIANI PART 3 Living and conventional metaphors in use: texts, discourses, genres, translation 185 10 Metaphor in understanding literary characters 187 RAYMOND W. GIBBS, JR. AND CARINA RASSE 11 The driving role of stereotypy in proverbial metaphors 205 MARC BONHOMME 12 Social movements and metaphor: the case of #FridaysForFuture 224 ELISABETTA ZURRU 13 Shakespeare’s metaphorical swarms in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: textual and pragmatic features and their impact on the Italian translation 245 ILARIA RIZZATO Index 260 Contributors Marc Bonhomme is professor emeritus of French Linguistics at the Uni- versity of Bern (Switzerland). He is the author of Les Figures clés du discours (1998), Le Discours métonymique (2006), L’Argumentation publicitaire (with J.-M. Adam, 2012), and Pragmatique des fgures du discours (2014). He recently edited Métaphore et argumentation (2017) with A.-M. Paillet and Ph. Wahl. He has also published numer- ous articles in the felds of rhetoric and discourse analysis. Marco Fasciolo is associate professor in French and General Linguistics at Sorbonne University (UR STIH), France. He has published Rethink- ing Presuppositions: From Natural Ontology to Lexicon (Cambridge Scholars, 2019), Grammaire philosophique du verbe (Classiques Gar- nier, 2021), and La sintassi del lessico (with Gaston Gross, UTET, 2021). His main research interests are situated at the interface between linguistics and philosophy and concern the description of the ontology presupposed by natural lexicons. Chiara Fedriani is assistant professor in Linguistics at the University of Genova. Her research interests are historical linguistics and Latin lin- guistics, where she has primarily focused on pragmatic phenomena, conceptual and creative metaphors, and on changes at the syntax– semantic interface involving case, argument structure, and semantic roles. Within the latter strand of research, she has published Expe- riential Constructions in Latin (Brill, 2014) and The Diachrony of Ditransitives (co-edited with Maria Napoli, De Gruyter, 2020). She has been principal investigator of the project The Lexicon of Embodied Experience in Latin (2019–2021), which explored how Latin speakers “made sense” of their bodily experience of the spatial environment to express metaphorically quintessential abstract concepts, such as feel- ings and emotions. Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is an independent cognitive scientist and former Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Califor- nia, Santa Cruz. His research interests focus on embodied cognition, viii Contributors pragmatics, and fgurative language. He is the author of many books, including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999), Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006), Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphor in Human Life (2017), and Interpreting Figura- tive Meaning (with Herb Colston, 2012), all published by Cambridge University Press. He is also editor of the Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought (CUP, 2008). Zoltán Kövecses is professor emeritus in the School of English and Ameri- can Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research focuses on conceptual metaphor theory. His latest books include Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Cambridge UP, 2020) and Where Meta- phors Come From (Oxford UP, 2015). Michele Prandi was professor of Linguistics at the Universities of Geneva, Pavia, Bologna, and Genoa. He is Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Uppsala. His main research felds are semantics of complex expressions, conditions of signifcance, natural ontology and conceptual analysis, and metaphor and fgurative language in their grammatical and conceptual aspects. Among his publications are Sémantique du contresens (Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1987), Gram- maire philosophique des tropes (Paris, Editions de Minuit, 1992 [Spanish transl: Gramática flosófca de los tropos, Madrid, Visor, 1995]), The Building Blocks of Meaning (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2004), La fnalité: fondements conceptuels et genèse linguistique (with Gaston Gross, Bruxelles, De Boeck – D uculot, 2004), La fnalità: Strutture concettuali e forme di espressione in italiano (with Gaston Gross and Cristiana De Santis, Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2005), Le regole e le scelte: Grammatica italiana (Turin, UTET, 2006 [2020]), L’analisi del periodo (Rome, Carocci, 2013), Conceptual Conficts in Metaphor and Figurative Language (New York/London, Routledge, 2017), and Le metafore tra le fgure: Una mappa ragionata (Turin, UTET, 2021). Carina Rasse received her Ph.D. in Linguistics (2021) at the Alpen- Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt (Austria) and is now doing post-doctoral research at this university. She is interested in metaphor, applied lin- guistics, and cognitive poetics. Catherine Resche, professor emerita at Université Panthéon-Assas – Paris 2, and a member of the Celiso research unit (Centre de linguistique en Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne Université), has extensive teaching experi- ence in the feld of English for economics, fnance, and international trade and management. The author of a great many articles in English and French on terminology, neology, metaphor, discourse, and genre analysis, she has also edited books on various aspects of specialised Contributors ix varieties of English. Alongside her local responsibilities in her univer- sity (as head of the language department), she was actively involved nationwide in the French national association of English professors and lecturers (SAES) as its general secretary for six years and in GERAS, a national association dealing with ESP. She is also a Knight of the French National Order of Merit and an Ofcer of the French Order of Academic Palms. Ilaria Rizzato is associate professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Genoa, Italy, and a member of the scientifc com- mittee of the Inter-University Centre for Metaphor Research (CIRM) based at the same university. Her research interests lie primarily in met- aphor studies, translation studies, and stylistics, with a special focus on the translation of fgurative language, the expression of point of view in text and the applications of pragmatics and stylistics to English to Italian translation. She translated and edited The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the latest and largest Italian edition of Shakespeare’s com- plete works (Bompiani, 2014–2019). Micaela Rossi is professor of French Language and Translation at the University of Genoa. Her research interests focus on the formation of new metaphorical terminologies in technical and scientifc vocabular- ies, as well as on the textual and discursive dynamics that determine their fxation within socio-professional communities of use. Among her publications is In rure alieno: Métaphores et termes nomades dans les langues de spécialité (Bern, Peter Lang, 2015). Francesca Strik Lievers is assistant professor in Linguistics at the Univer- sity of Genoa, Italy. Her main research interests are in lexical seman- tics and fgurative language. She has worked on the Italian verbal lexicon and on the linguistic encoding of sensory experience and has conducted extensive research on synaesthetic metaphors, trying to understand the linguistic and perceptual mechanisms that may explain their behaviour. Rita Temmerman was full professor in Translation and Terminology and Multilingual Intercultural Communication at Vrije Universiteit Brus- sel until she retired in 2019. Her research contributed to the socio- cognitive approach in terminology studies. She focuses on issues related to special language and terminology, such as application-oriented multilingual terminology analysis and understanding terminology cre- ation in cognitive, linguistic, cultural, and situational contexts. She has published on cognitive semantics and special language, metaphor in cognition, dynamics of understanding and terminology creation, intercultural and multilingual communication, secondary term forma- tion, terminology harmonisation within the EU, sensory experience and descriptors, and translanguaging.
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