Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
Edited by Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell, and Carole Hough
Author Information
Edited by Wendy Anderson, Senior Lecturer in English Language, University of Glasgow, Ellen Bramwell, Research Associate, University of Glasgow, and Carole Hough, Professor of Onomastics, University of Glasgow
Wendy Anderson is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow. Her research and teaching interests include semantics, metaphor, corpus linguistics, collocation and phraseology, and intercultural language education. She was Principal Investigator for the AHRC-funded project 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' (2012-2015), which sought to trace metaphor throughout the history of English, and the follow-on project 'Metaphor in the Curriculum' (2015-2016), which created materials on metaphor for use in secondary education. She is the author, with John Corbett, of Exploring English with Online Corpora (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).
Ellen Bramwell is a Research Associate working on metaphor and education at the University of Glasgow. She was Research Associate on the 'Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus' project and the follow-on project 'Metaphor in the Curriculum', and previously worked on the Historical Thesaurus of English (published as the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary) and the 'Scots Words and Place-names' project. In addition to her research interests in digital humanities, semantics, and lexicography, she specializes in onomastics and sociolinguistics, with a particular interest in personal naming systems.
Carole Hough is Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught for over 20 years. She is a historical linguist who specializes in name studies, Old English, and historical semantics. She has published widely in these and other fields. Her most recent book is 'An Ald Reht': Essays on Anglo-Saxon Law (2014), and her most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming (2016). She has served as President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences and President of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, and is currently Vice-President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland.
Contributors:
Marc Alexander, University of Glasgow
Wendy Anderson, University of Glasgow
Kenneth Austin, University of Bristol
Carole P. Biggam, University of Glasgow
Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow
Fraser Dallachy, University of Glasgow
Rachael Hamilton, University of Glasgow
Antonette diPaolo Healey, Yale University
Carole Hough, University of Glasgow
Daria Izdebska, University of Glasgow
Christian Kay, University of Glasgow
Judith Paterson, University of Glasgow
Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow
Beth Ralston, University of Glasgow
Jane Roberts, University of London
Irma Taavitsainen, University of Helsinki
