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Warmly recommended by your fellow PhD students...  

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Jocelyn Wolfe Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (Australia) 

1. •Adlington, R. (2003). Moving beyond motion: Metaphors for changing sound. Journal of the Royal Musical Assocation. 128(2), pp.297-318.
   

2. •Schippers, H. (2006). As if a little bird is sitting on you finger … Metaphor as a key instrument in the education of professional musicians. International Journal of Music Education, 24, 209-217.
   

3. •Sheldon, D. (2004). Listeners’ identification of musical expression through figurative language and musical terminology. Journal of Research in Music Education, Winter, 52(4), pp. 357-368.
   

4. •Spitzer, M. (2004). Metaphor and musical thought. Chicago: The University of Chicago.
   

5. Comments: These four texts show recent study of metaphor and music. Adlington and Spitzer deal with metaphor in the musical soundscape of the composition while Schippers and Sheldon deal with metaphor in music teaching and performance. The latter is an area less studied and is where my research is being conducted.
   

Hanneke van Loon Tilburg University (The Netherlands) 

1. •Steen, Gerard. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage : A Methodological Analysis of Theory and Research. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.
   

2. Comments: Clear outline of theories so far, clear outline of the research field; dealing with all the questions I could imagine myself asking when reading about metaphor theories, the book helps to organize these questions and guides by taking a methodological stand in metaphor research.
   

3. •Tendahl, Markus, and Raymond W. Gibbs. "Complementary Perspectives on Metaphor. Cognitive Linguistics and Relevance Theory." Journal of pragmatics. 40.11 (2008): 1823-1864.
   

4. Comments: Gives a clear overview of the different dimensions and perspectives that metaphor theories cover. Interesting insight to complement cognitive linguistics with relevance theory.
   

Corinna Koch Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

1. •Littlemore, Jeannette & Low, Graham (2006): Figurative Thinking and Foreign Langue Learning. Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan.
   

2. Comments: This book is perfect for all those researching metaphors in foreign language classrooms. The first part answers questions like "Why is figurative thinking important for foreign language learners?" The second part connects figurative thinking to the five competences of Bachman's (1990) model of communicative language ability.
   

Janet Ho  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong S.A.R. - China)

1. •Zoltán Kövecses (2009). The effect of context on the use of metaphor in discourse. Ibérica 17: 11-24. 
   

2. Comments: The article discusses the relation between metaphor production and the immediate linguistic context, which is useful for researchers analyzing metaphor use in particular context.
   

Ewa Biernacka  The Open University (United Kingdom)

1. •Stefanowitsch, Anatol and Stefan Th. Gries, (2007). Corpus-based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy.
   

2. Comments: Great collection, rather unique for the chapters on corpus linguistic accounts of metonymy
   

3. •Markert, Katja and Hahn, Udo, (2002). Understanding metonymies in discourse. In: Artificial Intelligence, vol 135, issue 1/2.
   

4. Comments: A good example of a clear procedure for metonymy identification in corpus, limited to location names metonymy type
   

5. •Tendahl, Markus (2009). A hybrid theory of metaphor: relevance theory and cognitive linguistics.
   

6. Comments: an interesting attempt at yet another way of explaining the phenomena of metaphor in language and thought
   

7. •Semino, Elena (2008). Metaphor in Discourse.
   

8. Comments: very well presented, great selection of genres (fiction, politics, science) analysed using computer tools
   

9. •Pragglejaz Group (2007). MIP: A Method for Identifying Metaphorically Used Words in Discourse. In: Metaphor & Symbol.
   

10. •Deignan, Alice (2005). Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics.
    

11. Comments: very well presented, all real-life examples from corpora, good discussion with other approaches to metaphor such as CMT
    

12. •Cameron, Lynne et al. (2009). The Discourse Dynamics Approach to Metaphor and Metaphor-Led Discourse Analysis. In: Metaphor & Symbol.
    

13. •Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr and Cameron, Lynne (2008). The Social-Cognitive Dynamics of Metaphor Performance. In: Cognitive Systems Research.
    

14. Comments: great illustration of what the Discourse Dynamics framework to metaphor (as proposed by Cameron) is about
    

June 7, 2010

RaAM PhD Liaison, Lettie Dorst.