Beschreibung:
Biographical note: Antonio Barcelona is Professor at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Description for reader: (First publ. in 2000 as vol. 30 of the series Topics in English Linguistics)
Written by some of the best known specialists, this collection of articles investigates in great detail a number of metaphorically and/or metonymically structured conceptual and linguistic domains and discusses in new, provocative ways the nature of these cognitive-linguistic mechanisms, their operation, and their interaction.