Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory
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Markus Tendahl is lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. In his PhD dissertation A Hybrid theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics he has suggested a comprehensive cognitive theory of metaphor. His research interests include figurative language, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics.
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Markus Tendahl is lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. In his PhD dissertation A Hybrid theory of Metaphor: Relevance Theory and Cognitive Linguistics he has suggested a comprehensive cognitive theory of metaphor. His research interests include figurative language, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding (1994), Intentions in the Experience of Meaning (1999), and Embodiment and Cognitive Science (2006). He is co-editor with Gerard Steen of Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics (1999), with Herbert Colston of Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader (2007), and editor of the journal Metaphor and Symbol. His research interests include psycholinguistics, figurative language, and pragmatics.