Intro -- Metaphor and Communication -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor -- 2.1 Corpus data -- 2.2 Speakers’ behaviour -- 3. The communicative dimension of metaphor -- 3.1 Persuasion in politics -- 3.2 Persuasion in media and advertising -- 3.3 Instruction and entertainment in education and arts -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor -- Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Comparison/Categorization debate -- 3. Ellipsis-based mischaracterization of Comparison theory -- 4. Towards an alternative battlefield -- 4.1 Target/Source contribution disparity -- 4.2 Target/Source mediator-preservation degree -- 4.3 Mediator carefulness -- 5. An example of the application of the dimensions -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Linguistic synaesthesia -- 1.2 Taste: A few words for a complex experience -- 2. A corpus-based analysis of taste synaesthesias -- 2.1 The corpus -- 2.2 Results -- 3. Metaphors of taste -- 3.1 The semantics of taste: A paradox? -- 3.2 Grounded taste metaphors -- 3.3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Selling and buying, killing and wounding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The corpus study: Identifying more and less conventional metaphors -- 2.1 Theoretical considerations: Conventionality and frequency -- 2.2 Method and results -- 3. Metaphorical commercial events -- 4. The field of bodily harm -- 5. Linking low-level creativity and high-level conventionality: The notion of intersubjectivity -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Time is money - everywhere? Analysing time metaphors across varieties of English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpus data -- 3. Analyses -- 4. Time is money expressions at corpus level - spend, save, and waste -- 4.1 Spending time -- 4.2 Saving time -- 4.3 Wasting time -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. time is money expressions at text type level - spend and waste -- 5.1 spend + time expression at text type level -- 5.2 waste + time expression at text type level -- 6. waste + time expression at text level -- 7. Individual expressions of time is money -- 8. Summary of results -- 9. Discussion -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- Metaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Procedure -- 3. Analysis -- 4. Discussion -- 5. General discussion and conclusions -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Towards a model of metaphorical understanding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphorical understanding -- 3. On propositional understanding -- 4. On imagistic understanding -- 5. On the sensorimotor aspects of imagery -- 6. Modelling imagisti.
