Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors 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 lawMultidisciplinary studies of metaphor will draw in a wide readership from psychology to linguistics, philosophy, literature, education, anthropology and computer science -- Cutting edge theory and empirical research based on contemporary ideas; authors have written chapters that situate their work in the broader context of interdisciplinary metaphor studies -- The authors break the mould on traditional thinking and offer new propositions on the topic offering cutting edge theory and empirical research