Goatly Andrew - The Language Of Metaphors - Paperback Machine Learning Barcode: 9780190692193

Barcode: 9780190692193

He surveys the restaurants of the previous generation and his own - from the most elegant to the lowest dive - along with the eating habits of the bourgeoisie the importance and variety of banquets the institutional meal and even the plight of "people who do not dine

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Goatly Andrew - The Language Of Metaphors - Paperback Machine Learning Barcode: 9780190692193Binding: Paperback Description: In this ambitious and wide ranging book Andrew Goatly looks at how we use metaphor to communicate meaning. Combining insights from functional linguistics and relevance theory he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations how we use them to communicate meaning and how we process them. Drawing on substantial linguistic corpora including literary works by William Golding