Preface and acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface and acknowledgements ix
4. Fantastic metaphors and where to find them 1
5. Part I. New methods and digital resources for mining metaphor and metonymy in thought, language, and images
6. Chapter 1. MetaNet 23
7. Chapter 2. The tripartite typology and the Córdoba Metonymy Database 49
8. Chapter 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production 75
9. Chapter 4. VisMet and the crowd 99
10. Chapter 5. MetaNet.HR 123
11. Part II. Reflecting on the risks and challenges involved in building and using repositories of figurative language
12. Chapter 6. The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors 149
13. Chapter 7. Figurative reasoning in hedged performatives 175
14. Chapter 8. Mereology in the flesh 199
15. Chapter 9. Metaphor repositories and cross-linguistic comparison 225
16. Notes on contributors 253
17. Metonymy and metaphor index 255
18. Author index 257
19. Subject index 261