卡梅伦等著的《隐喻的研究与应用/剑桥应用语言学丛书》所收集的论文涉及范围广，从隐喻的研究方法，隐喻的本质，到隐喻作为一种过程和结果，隐喻研究中的隐喻使用等。论文介绍了不同语境中，如学术论文、第二语言教学、母语使用、词典编撰等过程中隐喻的功能和使用的特点。

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Conventions

Series editors' preface

Preface

Ⅰ KEY ISSUES IN METAPHOR RESEARCH

 1 Operationalising 'metaphor' for applied linguistic research

 2 Researching metaphor

 3 Validating metaphor research projects

Ⅱ FROM THEORY TO DATA

 4 Getting your sources right: What Aristotle didn't say

 5 Metaphor and discourse: Towards a linguistic checklist for metaphor analysis

 6 Identifying and describing metaphor in spoken discourse data

Ⅲ ANALYSING METAPHOR IN NATURALLY OCCURRING DATA

 7 Who framed SLA research? Problem framing and metaphoric accounts of the SLA research process

 8 Bridges to learning: Metaphors of teaching, learning and language

 9 Corpus-based research into metaphor

Ⅳ ANALYSING METAPHOR IN ELICITED DATA

 10 "Captain of my own ship": Metaphor and the discourse of Chronic illness

 11 "This paper thinks ... ". Investigating the acceptability of the metaphor AN ESSAY IS A PERSON

 12 When is a dead rainbow not like a deadrainbow?differences A context-sensitive method for investigating between metaphor and simile

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