Metaphor and Writing : Figurative Thought in the Discourse of Written Communication

This Volume Explains How Metaphors, Metonymies, And Other Figures Of Thought Interact Cognitively And Rhetorically To Tell Us What Writing Is And What It Should Do. Drawing On Interviews With Writing Professionals And Published Commentary About Writing, It Argues That Our Everyday Metaphors And Metonymies For Writing Are Part Of A Figurative Rhetoric Of Writing - A Pattern Of Discourse And Thought That Includes Ways We Categorize Writers And Writing; Stories We Tell About People Who Write; Conceptual Metaphors And Metonymies Used Both To Describe And To Guide Writing; And Familiar, Yet Surprisingly Adaptable, Conceptual Blends Used Routinely For Imagining Writing Situations. The Book Will Give Scholars A Fresh Understanding Of Concepts Such As 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', And The Most Basic Figure Of All: 'the Writer'--provided By Publisher. Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. In Search Of The Figurative Rhetoric Of Writing; 2. The Double-bind Of Writer And To Write: Graded Categories; 3. Bind Upon Bind: The General-ability And Specific-expertise Views Of Writing; 4. Three Licensing Stories: The Literate Inscriber, The Good Writer, And The Author; 5. Writing As Transcription, Talk, And Voice: A Complex Metonymy; 6. The Writing Self: Multiple Selves, Conceptual Blends; 7. Writing To 'get Ideas Across': The Role Of The Conduit Metaphor; 8. Codes And Conversations: The Other Conduit Metaphor; 9. Metaphor And Choice. Philip Eubanks. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Frontmatter......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 List of figures......Page 9 List of tables......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 1 - In search of the figurative rhetoric of writing......Page 24 2 - The double bind of writer and to write: Graded categories......Page 37 3 - Bind upon bind: The general-ability and the specific-expertise views of writing......Page 52 4 - Three licensing stories: The literate inscriber, the good writer, and the author writer......Page 71 5 - Writing as transcription, talk, and voice: A complex metonymy......Page 104 6 - The writing self: Conceptual blends, multiple selves......Page 132 7 - Writing to "get ideas across": The role of the Conduit Metaphor......Page 153 8 - Codes and conversations: The other Conduit Metaphor......Page 181 9 - Metaphor and choice......Page 205 References......Page 209 Index......Page 221 "This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing - a pattern of discourse and thought that includes ways we categorize writers and writing; stories we tell about people who write; conceptual metaphors and metonymies used both to describe and to guide writing; and familiar, yet surprisingly adaptable, conceptual blends used routinely for imagining writing situations. The book will give scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', and the most basic figure of all: 'the writer'"--Back cover ; provided by publisher « This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues that our everyday metaphors and metonymies for writing are part of a figurative rhetoric of writing - a pattern of discourse and thought that includes ways we categorize writers and writing; stories we tell about people who write; conceptual metaphors and metonymies used both to describe and to guide writing; and familiar, yet surprisingly adaptable, conceptual blends used routinely for imagining writing situations. The book will give scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', and the most basic figure of all: 'the writer' » -- Quatrième de couverture This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Original and informative, it gives scholars a fresh understanding of concepts such as 'voice', 'self', 'clarity', 'power', and the most basic figure of all: 'the writer'.