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Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. This title unveils an approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a dynamic model: sleeping and waking.

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"This is a deeply insightful book that both opens up many paths for future research and sheds new light on a problem of millennial standing: the power of metaphor. I anticipate that this work will have a major and lasting impact. Placing metaphor at the center, Muller has brought a new dynamic dimension to linguistic theory." - David McNeill, University of Chicago"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226548258, 978-0226548258
      ISBN10: 0226548252
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      Book Synopsis
      Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. This title unveils an approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a dynamic model: sleeping and waking.

      Trade Review
      "This is a deeply insightful book that both opens up many paths for future research and sheds new light on a problem of millennial standing: the power of metaphor. I anticipate that this work will have a major and lasting impact. Placing metaphor at the center, Muller has brought a new dynamic dimension to linguistic theory." - David McNeill, University of Chicago"

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