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Book Chapter

From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps

Metaphor

Steen, Gerard. 1999. From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps. Book Chapter. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 57-79

Notes

one-shot - systematic metaphors (p. 59)Step 1. Metaphor focus identificationsometimes the metaphor is implicit and sometimes explicitStep 2. Metaphorical idea identificationStep 3 Nonliteral comparison identificationStep 4 Nonliteral analogy identificationStep 5 Nonliteral mapping identification6th step may have to be added if systematic metaphors only are considered - to compare across a number of expressions