Context and Connection in Metaphor

L. David Ritchie

New York, NY:  Palgrave-MacMillan 2006.

Table of contents:

List of figures  ix

Preface  x

Introduction.  1

Attributional and Relational Models of Metaphor  14

Conceptual Metaphor Theory   31

Conceptual Integration  58

Context   77

Context-Limited Simulation and Metaphor  96

Context-Limited Simulators Theory (CLST)  125

Conversation, Context, and Social Structure  174

Implications of CLS Theory  203

References       218

Index of names  226

Index of metaphors  229

Index of subjects  238