Richard Trim is Professor Emeritus in linguistics at the University of Toulon, France. His interest in the study of figurative language covers a wide variety of fields including historical linguistics, contrastive linguistics and translation with the analysis of corpora in both political and literary discourse. He has published widely in these different areas in the form of journal articles, the editing of conference proceedings, book reviews and monographs.
Using evidence from internationally known and appreciated poets and writers, Richard Trim offers a novel and powerful account of how figurative language, especially metaphor, emerges in literary texts. The 6-step process he outlines is the most complete investigation to date of the issue of why and how authors use particular metaphors in their works . Professor Zoltan Koevecses, Lorand Eoetvoes University, Budapest, Hungary