"[Gibbs] has edited a fine, wide-ranging collection of articles on metaphor and thought...Each writer remains true to his or her discipline and fills out the picture of what is known about the crucial role of metaphor in human thought and culture...Recommended..."
--S. Satris, Clemson University, CHOICE

A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. 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 non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

Part I. The Roots of Metaphor: 1. The neural theory of metaphor George Lakoff
2. Philosophy's debt to metaphor Mark Johnson
3. Rethinking metaphor Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner
4. How metaphor creates categories - quickly! Sam Glucksberg
5. A deflationary theory of metaphors Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson
Part II. Metaphor Understanding: 6. Metaphor as structure-mapping Dedre Gentner and Brian Bowdle
7. How the mind computes the meaning of metaphors: a simulation based on LSA Walter Kintsch
8. Is metaphor unique? Rachel Giora
9. Metaphor, imagination, and simulation: psycholinguistic evidence Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Teenie Matlock
10. Metaphor comprehension and the brain Seana Coulson
Part III. Metaphor in Language and Culture: 11. Metaphor and talk Lynne Cameron
12. Metaphor and education Graham Low
13. Metaphor in literature Elena Semino and Gerard Steen
14. Metaphor from body and culture Ning Yu
15. Metaphor, semantics, and context Josef Stern
16. Corpus linguistics and metaphor Alice Deignan
17. Metaphor and poetic figures Yeshayahu Shen
Part IV. Metaphor in Reasoning and Feeling: 18. Metaphor and artificial intelligence: why they matter to each other John Barnden
19. Conceptual metaphors, human cognition, and the nature of mathematics Rafael Nunez
20. What is the 'color' of law? Steven L. Winter
21. Metaphor and emotion Zoltán Kövecses
22. Putting it in context: metaphor and psychotherapy Linda M. McMullen
23. Metaphor and psychoanalysis Antal F. Borbely
24. Crossing the senses in metaphorical language Cristina Cacciari
Part V. Metaphor in Nonverbal Expression: 25. Metaphor and art John M. Kennedy
26. Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representations Charles Forceville
27. Metaphor, gesture, and thought Alan Cienki and Cornelia Mueller
28. Metaphor and music Lawrence Zbikowski.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Psycholinguistics [CFD]