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Understanding metaphor raises key questions about the relationship between language and meaning, and between language and mind. This book explores how this understanding can impact upon the theory and practice of language teaching. After summarising the cognitive basis of metaphor and other figures of speech, it looks at how this knowledge can inform classroom practice. Finally, it sets out how we can use these insights to re-appraise language learning theory in a way that treats it as consonant with the cognitive nature of language.
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RANDAL HOLME is Director of the Language Centre at the School of Language and Linguistics, University of Durham, UK.
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Book Title: Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching
Authors: Randal Holme
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Randal Holme 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1585-6Published: 16 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51254-6Published: 16 December 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50300-7Published: 16 December 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 242
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Language Education, Teaching and Teacher Education