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Some reading to support explorations into metaphor This is a list of books - good for people who like to read... Some of them are specifically about metaphor, some less so. Some of them are quite technical and linguistic, others more philosophical, some focus on critical theory. They're all signposts...
Deutscher, G. (2005) The unfolding of language. London, Arrow Books Hayakawa, S. I. (1990) Language in Thought and Action. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jefferson, A. and Robey, D. (1982) Modern Literary Theory: A comparative introduction. London, Batsford Academic Klein, N. (2007) The Shock Doctrine. London, Penguin Lakoff, G. (1987) Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. London, University of Chicago Press Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (1980) Metaphors we live by. Chicago, University of Chicago Press Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. New York, Basic Books Ortony, A. (1979) Metaphor and Thought. New York, Cambridge University Press Pinker, S (2007) The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature
Sontag, S. (1978) Illness as Metaphor. Toronto, McGraw-Hill Sontag, S. (1988) Aids and its Metaphors. London, Penguin |
