Selected Papers from the 2008 Stockholm Metaphor Festival

The 2008 Stockholm Metaphor Festival attracted some 30 participants from 15 countries throughout the world: Australia, Belgium, Denmark, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the USA. The ten papers included in this volume consist of the two keynote lectures and eight out of the 19 session papers. From the outset, the Metaphor Festival has welcomed contributions discussing metaphor and metonymy as well as other types of figurative language ...