Metaphor=Metaphor (English-Chinese)

Author: (English) Deignan, A.
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Features: This book is the 7th volume in the "Cobuild English Grammar Series" and discusses the most commonly used metaphors in modern spoken and written English, specifically the use of words or phrases to express meanings beyond their literal sense. The book consists of 12 chapters, each focusing on a topic based on natural phenomena, the material world, or a specific aspect of human life. These topics include the human body, health and disease, animals, buildings, machines, games and sports, cooking and food, plants, weather, temperature, light and color, and direction and movement. Each chapter explores how words or phrases related to these topics are used metaphorically to convey meanings beyond their literal sense.
Building on this basic categorization, each chapter is further divided into smaller subcategories based on the main topic of the chapter. For example, the chapter on "the human body" is divided into sections such as "head" and "face," the chapter on "animals" is divided into sections such as "domestic animals," "farm animals," and "wild animals," and the chapter on "weather" is further divided into sections such as "sunny weather," "cold weather," and "cloudy and humid weather." Each section provides detailed and specific explanations and descriptions of the metaphorical meanings and usage of words and phrases that refer to these things themselves or belong to the categories they represent (e.g., words and phrases subordinate to "face" like "eyes" and "nose," those subordinate to "domestic animals" like "dogs" and "cats," and those subordinate to "cold weather" like "frost" and "snow," etc.).
As a result, the metaphors discussed in this book fall under 12 major categories and 55 subcategories, totaling over 800. Additionally, the book selects more than 1,500 examples from the Cobuild corpus (The Bank of English), which contains over 300 million words, to provide practical illustrations for the discussions of metaphors in each chapter.