Cognition and Symbolic Structures: The Psychology of Metaphoric Transformation

by Robert E. Haskell

This volume is organized around the view that metaphor is an important cognitive process. Metaphor can no longer be considered the sole domain of language, although this is one important research domain as some of the chapters in the volume demonstrate. The chapters reflect the modern history of metaphor, and cover many of the ways metaphor is conceptualized and applied. The book also explores a number of functions and characteristics, and implications...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893913685
• ISBN13: 9780893913687
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"