Creating worldviews: metaphor, ideology and language

摘要

Underbill's study makes the pervasiveness and pitfalls of metaphoric thinking quite clear, so it is with this caveat in mind that his work may be described as weaving together strands of current research in various disciplines to produce a thought-provoking case study on the construction, maintenance and transformation of worldviews that makes a valuable contribution both to our understanding of the operations of metaphor and the history of ideas. The book is divided into Part One, a theoretical review of metaphor theory, and Part Two, which consists of three case studies. There is also a useful 44-page glossary.