Now available: "Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space"

[James J. Mischler]

Dear Funknet members:

My book, "Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The Interplay of Embodiment and Cultural Models," has just been released by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Below is the text of JB's official flyer. If you have any questions, let me know.

Thank you for your consideration.

Jim Mischler, PhD
Department of Language and Communication
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
USA

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New book information

JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY

www.benjamins.com


Fields of study: Cognition and language / Cognitive linguistics / Corpus linguistics / Historical linguistics / Theoretical linguistics

Title: Metaphor across Time and Conceptual Space: The Interplay of Embodiment and Cultural Models

Author: James J. Mischler, III

Affiliation: Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA

Description:
Contemporary linguistic forms are partially the product of their historical antecedents,
and the same is true for cognitive conceptualization. The book presents the results
of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and
empirical “mixed methods” design, employing both quantitative and qualitative
analysis measures; the study design was informed by usage-based theory. The goal
was to investigate the interaction over time between conceptualization and cultural
models in historical English-speaking society. The main study of two linguistic
metaphors of anger spans five centuries (A.D. 1500 to 1990). The results show that
conceptualization and cultural models—understood as non-autonomous, encyclopedic
knowledge—work together to determine both the meaning and use of a linguistic
metaphor. In addition, historically a wide variety of emotion concepts formed a complex
cognitive array called the Domain Matrix of emotion. The implications for conceptual
metaphor theory, research methodology, and future study are discussed in detail.

Book Series: Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 3 [CLSCC 3], 2013.

Pages: xv, 237 pp.

Pricing:
Hardback: (ISBN 978 90 272 0406 6) EUR 95.00  US 143.00

E-book: (ISBN 978 90 272 7180 8) EUR 95.00  US 143.00



Table of contents

Tables and figures

Part I. Theoretical foundations

Chapter 1. The Cognition-Culture interface

Chapter 2. Diachronic aspects of synchronic concepts

Chapter 3. Metaphor across historical time

Part II. A macro-study of human emotion in cultural context, A.D. 1500–1990

Chapter 4. Research questions and methodology

Chapter 5. Results of the ancillary study of non-linguistic data

Chapter 6. The main study of two diachronic metaphors of anger

Part III. Micro-studies of emotion – the 19th century

Chapter 7. The edge of anger: The spleen metaphor across emotion domains

Chapter 8. Bubbling happiness: Properties of emotion

Part IV. Conclusions and implications

Chapter 9. The non-autonomous nature of cognition, language, and culture

Epilogue. “Bridging the Gap” between theory and real-world language use

References. The historical Four Humors texts with brief annotations

Appendices

Index

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