Pensum/læringskrav

Merk: Pensumtekster merket med stjerne (*) er utvidet pensum for studenter som tar emnet etter gammel ordning, 15 studiepoeng.

Reading List:

Goatly, Andrew: The Language of Metaphors, 1997. London and New York: Routledge. 1-40, 82-282.

Kövecses, Zoltán: Metaphor. A Practical Introduction, 2002. Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press.

* Steen, Gerard: Understanding Metaphor in Literature: An Empirical Approach, 1994. London & New York: Longman. ISBN: 3-80, 161-196.

Compendium 'ENG4113 On Metaphor' (available from Kopiutsalget, Akademika, at the beginning of term):

  • *Cacciari, Cristina. 1998. Why do we speak metaphorically? Reflections on the functions of metaphor in discourse and reasoning. In Albert N. Katz et al., Figurative Language and Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 119-157.
  • Deignan, Alice. 1999. Corpus-based research into metaphor. In Cameron, Lynne & Graham Low (eds.). 1999. Researching and Applying Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 177-199.
  • Deignan, Alice. 2003. Metaphorical expressions and culture: an indirekt link. Metaphor and Symbol, 18. (4), 255-271.
  • Freeman, Donald C. 1996. 'According to my bond': King Lear and re-cognition. In Jean Jacques Weber (ed.), The Stylistics Reader. From Roman Jakobson to the Present. London etc.: Routledge, 280-297.
  • Sage, V. 1994. Metaphor in literature. In R.E. Asher (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press, 2456-2461.
  • *Schorer, Mark. 1969. Fiction and the 'Analogical Matrix'. In Schorer, Mark. The World We Imagine. Selected Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 24-45.
  • Semino, Elena. 2002. A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers. Text 22 (1), 107-139.
  • Steen, Gerard. 1999. Metaphor and discourse. Towards a linguistic checklist for metaphor analysis. In Cameron, Lynne & Graham Low (eds.). 1999. Researching and Applying Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 81-104.
  • Steinhart, E. and Kittay, E.F. 1994. Metaphor. In R.E. Asher (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon Press, 2452-2456.
  • Wikberg, Kay. 2001. Alive and kicking - metaphors versus idioms: a comparison. In Martin Gill et al., Language, Learning, Literature. Studies presented to Håkan Ringbom. (English Department Publications 4). Åbo Akademi University, 183-198.
  • *Wikberg, Kay. 2004. English metaphors and their translation: the importance of context. In Ajimer, K. and Stenström, A.-B. (eds.), Discourse patterns in Spoken and Written Corpora. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 245-265.

Literary works for analysis:

Atwood, Margaret: Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories, 1996 (1983). London: Vintage.

Joyce, James: Dubliners, 1992. London: Penguin.

In addition to the literary works: non-literary texts from newspapers and magazines.

Important collections and handbooks:

  • Cameron, Lynne & Graham Low (eds.). 1999. Researching and Applying Metaphor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Deignan, Alice. 1995. Collins Cobuild English Guides 7: Metaphor. London: HarperCollins.
  • Gibbs, Raymond W. 1994. The Poetics of Mind. Figurative Thought, Language and Understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ortony, Andrew (ed.). 1993. Metaphor and Thought. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wales, Katie. 1989. A Dictionary of Stylistics. 2nd ed. London & New York: Longman.

Published Mar. 6, 2005 12:06 PM