# Metaphor

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- Book: [Metaphor](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoltan-kovecses/metaphor) ([Metaphor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoltan-kovecses/metaphor.md))
- Authors: [Zoltán Kövecses](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoltan-kovecses)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 978-01-9537-494-0
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2010-03-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Combining up-to-date scholarship with clear and accessible language and helpful exercises, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction is an invaluable resource for all readers interested in metaphor. This second edition includes two new chapters--on 'metaphors in discourse' and 'metaphor and emotion' --along with new exercises, responses to criticism and recent developments in the field, and revised student exercises, tables, and figures.