Metaphor Networks: The Comparative Evolution of Figurative Language
- Author / Editor
- Trim, Richard.
Metaphor Networks: The Comparative Evolution of Figurative Language
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xv, 231 pp.: 44 b&w figs.
- Description
- Describes the historical evolution of figurative language, especially metaphors, identifying patterns of development. Metaphors depend on images in the past; new metaphors are created through linkage to core concepts or "underlying conceptual metaphors." Trim documents the legacy of English metaphors that pertain to love, focusing on Chaucer's works as a case study for comparing medieval and modern metaphors and for exploring the Latinate roots of English love metaphors.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.