Essays on metaphor in language and thought

Abstract

for the Conference on Metaphor in Language and Thought, promoted by the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem (Post-Graduate Programme in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies) and by GEIM Grupo de Estudos da Indeterminação e da Metáfora (Group of Studies on Indeterminacy and Metaphor). 1 The essays in this book are revised versions of papers presented in the conference which resulted in two other publications under preparation. The first, entitled Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach, is being organized by Mara Sophia Zanotto (PUC-SP), Lynne Cameron (Univ. of Leeds) and Marilda Cavalcanti (UNICAMP), and the second, entitled Metaphor in Applied Linguistics(provisional title), is being organized by Mara Sophia Zanotto (PUC-SP), Solange Coelho Vereza (UFF) and Maria Isabel Asperti Nardi (UNESP-Marília), the same editors of the present volume. The five-day conference 2 consisted of non-simultaneous activities: plenary talks, round tables, workshops and individual papers. This resulted in an intense and productive interaction among the participants.