The Power of Metaphor

The Power of Metaphor

Author: Mark Jordan Landau

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 9781433815799

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This book explores the possibility that metaphor is a cognitive tool that people routinely use to understand abstract concepts (such as morality) in terms of superficially dissimilar concepts that are relatively easier to comprehend (such as cleanliness).


Politicians and Rhetoric

Politicians and Rhetoric

Author: J. Charteris-Black

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0230501702

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This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words.


The Power Of Metaphor

The Power Of Metaphor

Author: Michael Berman

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

Published: 1999-09-21

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1845905466

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Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. " An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted" Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London


Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By

Author: George Lakoff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1980-11-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780226468006

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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.


The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media

The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media

Author: Raymond Gozzi

Publisher: Hampton Press (NJ)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781572731233

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This work examines the methaphors through which culture comprehends new media, such as cyberspace, the information superhighway, the computer virus, and hot and cool media. It also gives a history of metaphor in oral, writing, print, and electronic media.


Creative Multilingualism

Creative Multilingualism

Author: Rajinder Dudrah

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781783749294

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Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto is a welcome contribution to the field of modern languages, highlighting the intricate relationship between multilingualism and creativity, and, crucially, reaching beyond an Anglo-centric view of the world.


Making Truth

Making Truth

Author: Theodore L. Brown

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780252028106

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A new perspective on how scientists reason about the world, design and interpret experiments and communicate with one another and with the larger society outside science.


Creative Thinkering

Creative Thinkering

Author: Michael Michalko

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2011-08-31

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1608680258

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Why isn’t everyone creative? Why doesn’t education foster more ingenuity? Why is expertise often the enemy of innovation? Bestselling creativity expert Michael Michalko shows that in every ?eld of endeavor — from business and science to government, the arts, and even day-to-day life — natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts. Through step-by-step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples, he shows readers how to liberate their thinking and literally expand their imaginations by learning to synthesize dissimilar subjects, think paradoxically, and enlist the help of the subconscious mind. He also reveals the attitudes and approaches that diverse geniuses share — and anyone can emulate. Fascinating and fun, Michalko’s strategies facilitate the kind of lightbulb-moment thinking that changes lives — for the better.


More than Cool Reason

More than Cool Reason

Author: George Lakoff

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-07-27

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0226470989

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"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." — Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University "In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." — Norman Holland, University of Florida


Metaphorically Selling

Metaphorically Selling

Author: Anne Miller

Publisher: Chiron Assoc Incorporated

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780976279402

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You might say that author Anne Miller is like a homeowner who strikes oil while digging a ditch in the backyard. In this book, she shares knowledge she refined from more than 20 years of distilling metaphors. Her book leaves little doubt that metaphors can fuel the engines of your sales success. Its pages are full of colorful, persuasive anecdotes and analogies that follow one another like racecars coming out of Turn Four at Daytona. If you doubt whether her advice will apply to the rubber-meets-the-road realities of sales, just take Miller's ideas out for a test drive. Her primary expertise is in presentations, not sales, which may explain why her roadmap (note the extended metaphor) to success is so much more creative than most sales advice. Miller's book leaves many other tomes in the dust. getAbstract.com thinks sales professionals who read this book and master the art of the metaphor should get ready to take a victory lap or two.