Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context - Paperback

by Daniel C. Strack (Author)

Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks "context," and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Daniel C. Strack is professor in the English Department at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan.