Metaphor and Writing: Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521191029)

This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing - a pattern of discourse and thought that includes ways we categorize writers and writing; stories we tell about people who write; conceptual metaphors and metonymies used both to describe and to guide writing; and familiar, yet surprisingly adaptable, conceptual blends used routinely for imagining writing situations. The book will give scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', and the most basic figure of all: 'the writer'.

Author: Philip Eubanks
ISBN-10: 0521191025
ISBN-13: 9780521191029
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2010
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.60d