Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Figurativeness in text and discourse
5. Interacting with wine 10
6. An integrated approach to investigate the sociocognitive dimension of meta­phor in use 24
7. The representation of refuge and migration through meta­phors in the online newspaper The New York Times 37
8. The match that transcends tennis in the media coverage that transcends language 53
9. The word of the Cavaliere, the Cavaliere of words 65
10. How the use of frames and figurative language hampers understanding of science by lay people in IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report 77
11. Part II Figurativeness in multimodal discourse
12. “Back to the Future” 96
13. Experience and film meta­phor 109
14. Metaphorical representations of distance and proximity in Portuguese presidential political communication 126
15. Trompe l’oeil 141
16. Multimodal representations in Banksy’s graffiti 171
17. The Rhetorical Mind 185
18. Author index 193
19. Subject index 195
20. Metaphor index 197