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result of the research in this book, in the outskirts of Niamey, Niger’s capital. The chapter draws on concepts of empowering environments to demonstrate how, through collective solidarity or through power ., women have been able to create and develop their own listening associations. This has given

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A Discourse-Centred Perspective on Metaphorical Meaning and Understanding’ of normal verbal meaning (e.g., Levin, 1977), but rather as one form of normal verbal meaning. But of course if metaphor were all that ‘normal’, it would not stimulate the interest that it does. This interest is not only academic: it is not only philosophers, linguists, and psychologists who show

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Metaphor, Culture, and Discourse: The Pressure of Coherence the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor variation, as worked out in Kövecses (2005)? More specifically, what are the dimensions along which metaphors vary in natural discourse? Which aspects of metaphor are involved in this variation? And most importantly, what are the causes that produce such

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Three Kinds of Metaphor in Discourse: A Linguistic Taxonomyn, see Kövecses, 2002). They have shown how the structure of language is replete with metaphor, for instance in conventional expressions for talk about argument in terms of war (Lotte . her thesis; Sam . George with mild irony; Bush has proposed another .) or (un)happiness in terms of a vertical sca

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Reading Sonnet 30: Discourse, Metaphor and Blendingt also depend on the surrounding context, which is also discourse. This chapter introduces three levels of discourse and, using Blending Theory, shows how cross-domain conceptual relationships of various kinds are linked to the three levels.

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Collecting Political Meaning from the Count of Metaphor has continued in the tradition of discursive approaches that are particularly concerned with developing methods. Again the assumption is that metaphors in discourse can be studied as political phenomena. We start with an overview of significant contributions and elaborate the role and effects of me

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How Business Press Headlines Get Their Message Across: A Different Perspective on Metaphorof press headlines as a discourse type in its own right. The chapter sets out to chart and analyse the use of metaphor in the sub-field of business press headlines with the added aim of exposing the most productive patterns within the field and how these foster communication. From the reader’s point