Book Review: Ecocriticism
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selecta from metaphors in the Bible and the Koran. The author identifies source domains common to both (four dominant ones are journeys, weather, fire and light, and plants), but also concludes that the Koran is less metaphorical, and has fewer productive source domains, than the Bible. He discusses the reasons for the differences, emphasizing that ‘nowhere is the combined cognitive and emotive effect of metaphor more evident than in religious texts’ (p. 239). Charteris-Black’s excellent book shows that after the wholesale turn of the linguistic toward the cognitive, metaphor scholars are right to redress the balance, and have a close look again at texts (including non-verbal ones; see e.g. Forceville, 2005a, 2005b). Moreover, his study is convincing proof that thorough scholarly research on metaphor is a strong basis for critical analysis of the texts produced or promulgated by the powerful in this world.