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Author Caballero, Rosario, 1963-

Title Re-viewing space : figurative language in architects' assessment of built space / by Rosario Caballero.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 2
Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-257) and index.
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Contents ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of contents""; ""Chapter 1. What this book says about metaphor, architects, and the assessment of building design""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. A genre approach to metaphor""; ""Chapter 2. Architectus Verborum. An introduction to architectural discourse""; ""1. Rendering space: The multimodal quality of architectural texts""; ""2. Thinking and talking about space: Metaphors architects live by""; ""2.1. Metaphors from the natural sciences""; ""2.2. Metaphors from linguistic description""; ""2.3. Metaphors from spatial mechanics""
""3. This building is a fridge: The thinking eye of architects""""Chapter 3. The cognitive and rhetorical dimensions of metaphor""; ""1. What is metaphor? Defining metaphor""; ""1.1. Interaction views""; ""1.2. Comparison views""; ""1.3. Experientialist views""; ""2. What are metaphors for? The rhetorical dimension of metaphor""; ""2.1. Ideational focus""; ""2.2. Interpersonal focus""; ""2.3. Textual focus""; ""Chapter 4. Exploring metaphor in the building review genre""; ""1. The building review""; ""1.1. The rhetorical organization of building reviews""
""1.2. The building review versus other reviewing practices""""2. Building a text corpus for analysis""; ""3. Identifying metaphorical data in texts""; ""4. Classifying metaphor""; ""4.1. Metaphor taxonomies""; ""4.2. A proposal for classifying architectural metaphors""; ""5. Exploring metaphorical language in reviews""; ""Chapter 5. Metaphorical language and its underlying schemas in architectural assessment""; ""1. Turning space into a building: Process-focused metaphors""; ""1.1. Manipulating concrete, physical matter""; ""1.2. Combining abstract, non-physical matter""
""2. Highlighting the functional, behavioral and aesthetic properties of buildings: Product-focused metaphors""""2.1. Organic metaphors""; ""2.2. Inorganic metaphors""; ""2.3. Motion metaphors""; ""3. Metaphor diversification in architectural discourse""; ""3.1. Buildings as containers""; ""3.2. Buildings as part-whole composites""; ""Chapter 6. The linguistic realization of metaphor in architectural discourse""; ""1. Nominal realizations""; ""1.1. Noun heads""; ""1.2. Pre-modification patterns""; ""1.3. Post-modification patterns""; ""1.4. Subject complements""; ""2. Verbal realizations""
""2.1. Motion constructions""""3. Adjectival realizations""; ""3.1. Visually motivated adjectives""; ""3.2. Non-visually motivated adjectives""; ""4. Adverbial realizations""; ""5. Metaphorical clusters""; ""Chapter 7. The contribution of figurative language to re-viewing space""; ""1. Figurative language and description""; ""1.1. Metaphor and spatial deixis""; ""1.2. Figurative language in captions""; ""2. Figurative language and evaluation""; ""3. The angle of telling: Figurative language and authorial positioning""; ""3.1. Looking properly""; ""3.2. Thinking properly""
Summary Annotation "Re-Viewing Space. Figurative Language in Architects' Assessment of Built Space draws attention to the structure of mind as shown by the pervasiveness of figurative language in all kinds of discourse. It integrates insights from cognitive theory with discourse analytic procedures in order to explore the role of metaphor in real communication. Bearing in mind that an understanding of the relationship between conceptual schemas and linguistic expressions cannot be effected without considering the cultural contexts in which metaphors occur, this book is concerned with exploring the kind of metaphors used by architects for assessing design solutions in building reviews."--Jacket.
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Subject Architecture -- Language.
Architecture -- Language.
Architecture.
Description (Rhetoric)
Description (Rhetoric)
Metaphor.
Metaphor.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: (DLC) 2005024609 (OCoLC)61361621
ISBN 9783110893892 (electronic book)
3110893894 (electronic book)
3110185202 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9783110185201 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)