Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language

by James Underhill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074867909X
• ISBN13: 9780748679096
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"