Language of Metaphors

In this ambitious and wide-ranging textbook Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them. This book: * examines the distinction between literal and metaphorical language * surveys the means by which metaphors are realised in texts * locates the interpretati