Metaphor and Discourse

Metaphor and Discourse presents work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas, which presents a challenge to the 'classic' Conceptual Metaphor Theory approach. Discourse scholars have for a long time been concerned with the difficulties of identifying, annotating, and analysing metaphors, as well as with the complex relations between the embodiment of metaphorical thought on the one hand and the socio-cultural grounding of metaphorical communication on the other. Now in paperback, the present book provides a state-of-the-art overview of this lively research field, and proposes innovative approaches in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond to solving tensions between conceptualist idealizations and empirically observable variation.

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK, and has published on political rhetoric and its history in Britain and Germany. His books include the monographs and the co-edited volume Metaphor and Intercultural Communication, Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust, and Metaphor and Political Discourse.

Jorg Zinken is a researcher at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, Germany. His research has been concerned with language use across languages and in various (institutional and everyday) settings.