Re-viewing Space : figurative language in architects´ assessment of built space
/ Rosario Caballero.
- 1st ed.
- New York. Mouton De Gruyter. 2006.
- xi, 261 p. 23 cm.
Includes index
This book describes and explores the linguistic metaphors used by architects to assess design solutions in building reviews, and the conceptual mappings that motivate them. The genre perspective adopted throughout the work offers a view of figurative language that considers its use in the discussion of architectural topics in a real communicative situation involving specific participants, clear rhetorical goals and recognisable textual artefacts.