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The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

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Through contributions by scholars from a wide range of disciplines such as linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and politics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary, contextualized and synchronic-diachronic combined exploration of various aspects of metaphor in naturally occurring discourses... [It] is an excellent contribution for metaphor scholars, discourse analysts, and other researchers in relevant fields. - Discourse Studies

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KATHRYN BANKS is Lecturer in French, Durham University, UK JOHN BARNDEN is Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Birmingham, UK JONATHAN CHARTERIS-BLACK is Professor of Linguistics, University of West of England, UK PAUL CHILTON is Professor of Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK DAVID COWLING is Professor of French, Durham University, UK CHRIST'L DE LANDTSHEER is Professor of Communication Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium ROSLYN FRANK is Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, USA RAYMOND W. GIBBS is Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa-Cruz, USA HONESTO HERRERA-SOLER is Associate Professor of English, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empreariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain VERONIKA KOLLER is Lecturer in English Language, Lancaster University, UK NELYA KOTEYKO is a Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES is Professor of Linguistics, Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary JULIA E. LONERGAN, University of California, Santa-Cruz, USA BRIGITTE NERLICH is Professor of Science, Language and Society, University of Nottingham, UK GERARD STEEN work in the Department of Language and Communication at VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands MICHAEL WHITE is Professor of English, Escuela Universitaria de Estudios Empresariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain JEFFREY ZAVADIL, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University, USA

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