The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language thought culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor metaphor understanding metaphor in language and culture metaphor in reasoning and feeling and metaphor in nonverbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines including psychology linguistics philosophy cognitive science literature education music and law.