I is an other : the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world /: the secret life of metaphor and how it shapes the way we see the world. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Geary.
• Other Names: Geary, James, 1962-
• Contents: Foreword : why I is an other -- Metaphor and thought : all shook up -- Metaphor and etymology : language is fossil poetry -- Metaphor and money : how high can a dead cat bounce? -- Metaphor and the mind : imagining an apple in someone's eye -- Metaphor and advertising : imaginary gardens with real toads in them -- Metaphor and the brain : bright sneezes and loud sunlight -- Metaphor and the body : anger is a heated fluid in a container -- Metaphor and politics : freedom fries and liberty cabbage -- Metaphor and pleasure : experience is a comb that nature gives to bald men -- Metaphor and children : how should one refer to the sky? -- Metaphor and science : the earth is like a rice pudding -- Metaphor and parables and proverbs : mighty darn good lies -- Metaphor and innovation : make it strange -- Metaphor and psychology : a little splash of color from my mother -- Backword : the logic of metaphor.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 428.1; Metaphor; Rhetoric and psychology; Thought and thinking; Language and languages; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Language and languages; Metaphor; Rhetoric and psychology; Thought and thinking; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780062041777; 0062041770
• Related ISBNs: 9780061710285; 0061710288
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.