Includes bibliographical references and index.

A discourse-centred perspective on metaphorical meaning and understanding / J�org Zinken and Andreas Musolff -- Metaphor, culture and discourse : the pressure of coherence / Zolt�an K�ovecses -- Three kinds of metaphor in discourse : a linguistic taxonomy / Gerard Steen -- Reading sonnet 30 : discourse, metaphor and blending / Paul Chilton -- Collecting political meaning from the count of metaphor / Christ'l De Landtsheer -- Metaphor and context : a perspective from artificial intelligence / John Barnden -- Metaphor and political communication / Jonathan Charteris-Black -- Missions and empires : religious and political metaphors in corporate discourse / Veronika Koller -- How business press headlines get their message across : a different perspective on metaphor / Michael White and Honesto Herrera -- MRSA : portrait of a superbug : a media drama in three acts / Brigitte Nerlich and Nelya Koteyko -- Shifting identities : metaphors of discourse evolution / Roslyn M. Frank -- 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' : linguistic mercantilism in Renaissance France / David Cowling -- Interpretations of the body politic and of natural bodies in late sixteenth-century France / Kathryn Banks -- Bodies politic and bodies cosmic : the Roman stoic theory of the 'two cities' / Jeffery Zavadil -- Metaphor in the history of ideas and discourses : how can we interpret a medieval version of the Body-state analogy? / Andreas Musolff -- Studying metaphor in discourse : some lessons, challenges and new data / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Julia E. Lonergan.

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