TY - BOOK AU - Cuccio,Valentina AU - Ervas,Francesca AU - Fahlenbrach,Kathrin AU - Fontana,Sabina AU - Frezza,Giulia AU - Gagliasso,Elena AU - Gola,Elisabetta AU - Guzzardi,Luca AU - Iljinska,Larisa AU - Indurkhya,Bipin AU - Jensen,Bård Uri AU - Kövecses,Zoltán AU - Lee,Minho AU - Low,Graham AU - López-Rodríguez,Clara Inés AU - Morabito,Carmela AU - Nacey,Susan AU - Negrea-Busuioc,Elena AU - Niemeier,Susanne AU - Ojha,Amitash AU - Platonova,Marina AU - Rossi,Maria Grazia AU - Rossi,Micaela AU - Smirnova,Tatjana AU - Tagliagambe,Silvano AU - Tercedor-Sánchez,Maribel AU - Veale,Tony AU - Wade,John C. TI - Metaphor in Communication, Science and Education T2 - Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , SN - 9783110547481 U1 - 410 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Metaphor KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Embodied Cognition N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; How embodied cognition still matters to metaphor studies --; Part I: Theoretical perspectives --; Metaphor and metonymy in folk and expert theories of emotion --; Metaphor and Metamorphosis --; Is language necessary to interpret visual metaphors? --; Embodied Simulation and metaphorical gestures --; Part II: Communication --; Audiovisual metaphors and metonymies of emotions and depression in moving images --; Leading the war at home and winning the race abroad: Metaphors used by President Obama to frame the fight against climate change --; Secret codes of metaphor: Anatomy of architecture --; Some observations about metaphors in specialised languages --; Part III: Science --; Classical physics as a metaphorical tool for evoking quantum world --; Integration and differentiation at the basis of metaphor: dexterity in behaviour and degeneracy in the nervous system --; Building metaphors: Constitutive narratives in science --; Identification and understanding of medical metaphors by non-experts --; Part IV: Education --; Eliciting metaphor in education research: Is it really worth the effort? --; Teaching (in) metaphors --; Metaphoricity in English L2 learners’ prepositions --; Metaphor and the shaping of educational thinking --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This collection of papers presents some recent trends in metaphor studies that propose new directions of research on the embodied cognition perspective. The overall volume, in particular, shows how the embodied cognition still remains a relevant approach in a multidisciplinary research on the communicative side of metaphors, by focusing on both comprehension processes in science as well as learning processes in education UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549928 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110549928 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110549928/original ER -