Creating Worldviews: Metaphor, Ideology and Language

This book encourages readers to reflect upon language and the role metaphor plays in patterning ideas and thought. It first off ers a critical introduction to metaphor theory as it has emerged over the past thirty years in the States, then widens the scope of metaphor theory by investigating not only the worldview our language off ers us, but also the worldviews which we adapt in our own ideological and personal interpretations of the world.