Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks "context," and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Metaphor Theory at an Impasse
• Chapter One: Metaphor Is Grounded in Sense Perception
• Chapter Two: Metonymic Binding and Conceptualization
• Chapter Three: The Challenge of Feature Attribution
• Chapter Four: Conceptual Filtering
• Chapter Five: Context and Goal Orientation
• Chapter Six: Metonymic Cues and Narrative Framing
• Chapter Seven: Metaphor Productivity and Dual-mode Instantiation
• Conclusion: Invariance and Beyond
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author