This book collects virtually all research perspectives on metaphor in the field of cognitive linguistics. Moreover, it presents a comprehensive range of research methods for metaphor including qualitative and quantitative methods and the combination of the two. For example, critical metaphor analysis, metaphor interpretation, metaphor experiments, neuro method, and so on are all explained in detail.

Zhuanglin Hu is a distinguished linguistics professor at Peking University, the leading Chinese university for the humanities and social sciences. He has published more than one hundred articles in areas such as text, discourse, language teaching, and cognitive linguistics.