Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Introduction vii
5. Part I. Is Mixed Metaphor a Problem?
6. Chapter 1. A view of “mixed metaphor” within a conceptual metaphor theory framework 3
7. Chapter 2. Mixed metaphors from a discourse dynamics perspective 17
8. Chapter 3. Why mixed metaphors make sense 31
9. Chapter 4. Tackling mixed metaphors in discourse 57
10. Part II. Reasons for Mixing Metaphor
11. Chapter 5. Mixed metaphor 75
12. Chapter 6. Mixed metaphor is a question of deliberateness 113
13. Chapter 7. When languages and cultures meet 133
14. Chapter 8. The ‘dull roar’ and the ‘burning barbed wire pantyhose’ 155
15. Part III. Effects of Mixing Metaphor
16. Chapter 9. We drink with our eyes first 179
17. Chapter 10. A corpus-based study of ‘mixed metaphor’ as a metalinguistic comment 203
18. Chapter 11. Mixing in pictorial and multimodal metaphors? 223
19. Chapter 12. Extended metaphor in the web of discourse 241
20. Index 267