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  Myths and myth-makers : old tales and superstitions interpreted by comparative mythology / 

by John Fiske. - Milton Keynes : Lightning source, print 2010 

vi, 251 p. ; 25 cm 

Rist. dell'ed.: Boston : Osgood, 1873 

ISBN 978-1-14309-120-9 

  398.35 FIS MYT 

 

  The restaurants book : ethnographies of where we eat / edited by David Beriss and David 

Sutton. - Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007 

xii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 

ISBN 978-1-84520-755-7 

  Whether they spread authoritarian French organizational models or the bland standardization 

of American fast food, restaurants have been accused of contributing to the homogenization of 

cultures. Yet restaurants have also played a central role in the reassertion of the local, as 

powerful cultural brokers and symbols for protests against a globalized food system. The 

Restaurants Book brings together anthropological insights into these thoroughly postmodern 

places. 

  394.12 RES BOO 

 

  Santuari à répit : il rito del ritorno alla vita o doppia morte nei santuari alpini / Fiorella 

Mattioli Carcano ; prefazione di Annibale Salsa. - Scarmagno : Priuli & Verlucca, c2009 

221 p. ; 23 cm. - (Paradigma) 

ISBN 978-88-8068-441-1 

  Un tempo la morte di un bambino era frequente ed elaborata dalla mentalità di allora. Ma il 

decesso prima del battesimo condannava il piccolo defunto al limbo, spazio dell'Aldilà mai 

veramente accettato dai fedeli. A queste creature non era concessa neppure la sepoltura in 

terra consacrata; il desiderio di dare ai propri figli la salvezza dell'anima è all'origine del rito e 

dei santuari del "ritorno alla vita", che gli studiosi francesi hanno chiamato à répit, del respiro, 

e altri della "doppia morte" o della "morte sospesa". 

  393 MAT SAN 

 

400 - Linguaggio   

  Metaphor and corpus linguistics / Alice Deignan. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, 

c2005 

VIII, 235 p. ; 24 cm. - (Converging evidence in language and communication research, ISSN 

1566-7774 ; vol. 6) 

ISBN 978-90-272-3898-6 

  Metaphor is a topical issue across a number of disciplines, wherever researchers are 

concerned with how speakers and writers package and process messages. The book includes 

corpus linguistic studies of different aspects of metaphor, which investigate its linguistic and 

semantic properties and relate them to current theoretical views. The book demonstrates the 

need for naturally-occurring language data to be used in the development of metaphor theory, 

and shows the value of corpus data and techniques in this work. 

  401.41 DEI MET 

 

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  A method for linguistic metaphor identification : from MIP to MIPVU / Gerard J. Steen ... [et 

al.]. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, c2010 

X, 298 p. : tab. ; 25 cm. - (Converging evidence in language and communication research, 

ISSN 1566-7774 ; vol. 14) 

ISBN 978-90-272-3903-7 

  This book presents a complete method for the identification of metaphor in language at the 

level of word use. It is based on extensive methodological and empirical corpus-linguistic 

research in two languages, English and Dutch. The method is formulated as an explicit manual 

of instructions: the method being a development and refinement of the popular MIP procedure 

presented by the Pragglejaz Group in 2007; the extended version is called MIPVU. Its 

application is demonstrated in five case studies addressing metaphor in English news texts, 

conversations, fiction, and academic texts, and Dutch news texts and conversations. 

  401.41 AME FOR 

 

  Metonymy and metaphor in grammar / edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther, Linda L. Thornburg, 

Antonio Barcelona. - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, c2009 

XI, 423 p. : graf., tab. ; 25 cm. - (Human cognitive processing, ISSN 1387-6724 ; vol. 25) 

  The present volume goes even beyond this insight to propose that grammar itself is 

metonymical in nature (Langacker) and that conceptual metonymy and metaphor leave their 

imprints on lexicogrammatical structure. This thesis is developed and substantiated for a wide 

array of languages and lexicogrammatical phenomena, such as word class meaning and word 

formation, case and aspect, proper names and noun phrases, predicate and clause 

constructions, and other metonymically and metaphorically motivated grammatical meanings 

and forms. 

  401.41 MET AND 

 

  La parola nella cultura russa tra '800 e '900 : materiali per una ricognizione dello slovo / 

Donatella Ferrari-Bravo, Elena Treu. - Pisa : Tipografia editrice pisana, c2010 

XLVI, 513 p., [1] c. ripieg. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Studi slavi e baltici / Università di Pisa, 

Dipartimento di linguistrica ; 9) 

  401 FER PAR 

 

 Researching and applying metaphor in the real world / edited by Graham Low ... [et al.]. - 

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, c2010 

XII, 385 p. : graf., tab. ; 25 cm. - (Human cognitive processing, ISSN 1387-6724 ; vol. 26) 

ISBN 978-90-272-2380-7 

  This book starts by describing the nature and scope of real world metaphor research and then 

illustrates, the different areas it can apply to, and different methodologies that can be 

employed. Research problems are explored in areas such as artificial intelligence, language 

teaching and learning, reconciliation dialogue, university lecture discourse, poetry and wine 

description. In each case the empirical studies refer back to Gibbs's opening overview of real-

world research. The result is an invaluable and cross-referenced collection of papers 

addressing real-world problems. 

  401.41 RES AND 

 

  Workplace discourse / Almut Koester. - London : Continuum, c2010 

xii, 191 p. ; 24 cm. - (Continuum discourse series) 

ISBN 978-1-84706-115-7 

  Workplace Discourse provides an overview of the rapidly developing field of spoken and 

written workplace interaction, taking a fresh perspective on research methods and key issues 

in the field. The book draws on Koester's previous research, but examines the current state of 

workplace discourse more widely. It provides a descriptive account of the linguistic 

characteristics of workplace discourse within their social and organizational contexts, with 

illustrative extracts from real texts and naturally occurring spoken interactions. 

  401.41 KOE WOR 

 

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