"The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis"--.

• Drawing Attention to Metaphor
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Drawing attention to metaphor
  • 1. By means of context
  • 2. Definitions: Metaphor, “deliberateness” and “attention-drawing”
  • 3. The theory and the debate(s)
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. The role of non-textual modes
  • 6. The antiquity debate: Are we second-guessing ancient authors?
  • 7. The role of genre
  • 8. Summing up
  • References
• The role of co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. The role of co-text in the identification and analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor
    • 3.1 The role of co-text in the analysis of similes
    • 3.2 Extended metaphor as co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor
    • 3.3 Recurrent metaphor as co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor
  • 4. Conclusion and discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• A typological framework of attention-drawing strategies for Ancient Egyptian metaphorical language
  • 1. The point of departure
  • 2. Criteria
  • 3. Method
    • 3.1 Corpus annotation
  • 4. A multidimensional typology
    • 4.1 Graphemic strategies
    • 4.2 Phonemic strategies
    • 4.3 Semantic strategies
    • 4.4 Syntactic strategies
    • 4.5 Text structure strategies
    • 4.6 Pragmatic strategies
  • 5. The role of genre
  • 6. Other quantitative approaches
  • 7. Looking outwards
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Online corpora
• A multimodal perspective on MCA
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: Why begin with a multimodal perspective?
  • 3. (Possible) metacommunicative awareness: Signals of greater use of effort
  • 4. The relation to metaphor
  • 5. A look at metaphoric expression in words and in gestures
  • 6. MCA as a dynamic phenomenon: Possible MCA in different time relations, with special attention to metaphor
  • 7. Metacommunicative awareness is not necessarily deliberateness of expression
  • 8. Conclusions
  • References
• Deliberate use of metaphor and metonymy as mnemonic devices for identification in a non-linguistic modality
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The archaeological material
  • 3. The workings of the system
    • Examples of connections between mark and man
      • Example 1
      • Example 2
      • Example 3
      • Example 4
      • Example 5
    • 3.1 A family mark: Semiosis over the passage of time
      • Example 6
  • 4. The role and nature of metaphor and metonymy in the system over time
  • References
• Early Greek medical metaphors and the question of deliberateness
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hippocratic comparisons
    • 2.1 Borderline cases
  • 3. Two famous comparisons by Empedocles
  • 4. The question of deliberateness in the Hippocratic author and in Empedocles
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• “Entering the house of Hades”
  • 1. Introduction: Figurative language, deliberateness and death
  • 2. Death and figurative language in the Iliad
    • 2.1 Metonymic expressions for death in the Iliad
    • 2.2 Metaphorical conceptualisations of death in the Iliad
      • 2.2.1 Death is darkness
      • 2.2.2 Death is departure
      • 2.2.3 Other conceptualisations of death in the Iliad
    • 2.3 Preliminary conclusions
  • 3. Figurative language and death in the Odyssey
  • 4. The treatment of battle death in the battle exhortations of Tyrtaeus and Callinus
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• In search of deliberateness in Maya glyphic texts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual metaphor and metonymy in Classic Mayan
    • 2.1 Verbs of cognition in Mayan languages
    • 2.2 Birth and death
    • 2.3 Agricultural connotations in Maya culture
    • 2.4 Royal accession, Panel of 96 Glyphs
    • 2.5 The language of war
  • 3. In search of deliberateness
  • Key to glosses
  • References
• Is all poetic metaphor deliberate?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Deliberate vs. non-deliberate metaphor
  • 3. Poetic metaphor, verbal creativity and deliberateness
  • 4. What is poetic metaphor?
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References
• To those walking in the footsteps of the faith
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Pauline epistles as a corpus
  • 3. Deliberate metaphor and DMT
  • 4. Deliberate metaphor in CMT
    • 4.1 The Invariance Principle
    • 4.2 Poetic metaphor in CMT
    • 4.3 Blending Theory
  • 5. Creating deliberate metaphor
    • 5.1 Deliberate metaphor and alienation
    • 5.2 Techniques of DM by alienation in Paul’s metaphors
    • 5.2.1 Ill-fitting source domain
    • 5.2.2 Contradicting source domains for the same target domain
    • 5.2.3 Internally flawed source domain
    • 5.3 Deliberate metaphor and conceit
    • 5.4 Deliberate metaphor and the influence of register
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Key to glosses
  • References
• Index