Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language

✍ Scribed by James W. Underhill

• Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Encouraging readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought, this book first offers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States. James W. Underhill then widens the scope of metaphor theory by
investigating not only the worldview our language offers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world.This book explores new avenues in metaphor theory in the work of contemporary French, German and Czech scholars. Detailed case studies
marry metaphor theory with discourse analysis in order to investigate the ways the Czech language was reshaped by communist discourse, and the way fascism emerged in the German language. The third case study turns metaphor theory on its head: instead of looking for metaphors in language, it
describes the way language systems (French & English) are understood in terms of metaphorically-framed concepts evolving over t

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I Metaphor
Chapter 1 Metaphor and World-Conceiving
Chapter 2 A Concern for Metaphor
Chapter 3 Metaphors We Live By
Chapter 4 Other Developments in Metaphor Theory
Chapter 5 Further Cognitive Contributions to Metaphor Theory
Chapter 6 Diversity on the Periphery
Part II Case Studies in Metaphor
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 7 The Language of Czechoslovak Communist Power
Chapter 8 Hitlerdeutsch: Klemperer and the Language of the Third Reich
Chapter 9 Language in Metaphors
A Final Word
Glossary
Bibliography
Index