Metaphor and Beyond: An Introduction

Abstract

sociation for Literary Semantics in September 1997, which was hosted by Monika Fludernik. It extends two previous explorations into the theory of metaphor in the same journal, in issues 13:4 (1992) and 14:1 (1993), which were edited by Yeshayahu Shen (Tel Aviv). Whereas in the two previous issues Shen's major aim was to present recent developments in cognitive linguistics to a wider literary audience and to attempt an integration of cognitive and literary-semiotic parameters in the theory of metaphor, the present issue is concerned with more recent work in metaphor theory as presented in the opening paper, in which Mark Turner and Gilles Fauconnier introduce their ongoing research about conceptual blending. This issue also illustrates successful applications of cognitive approaches to the analysis of metaphor in literary texts, and the contributions demonstrate in addition that other textual phenomena such as deixis can be discussed within the same parameters.