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The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor : a perspective from Chinese.
This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which concep...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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| Colección: | Human Cognitive Processing Ser. ;
vol. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which conceptual metaphors are culture specific, wide spread or universal in a cognitive and cultural context. The empirical studies presented reinforce the view that metaphor is the main mechanism through which abstract concepts are comprehended and abstract reasoning is performed. They also support, from the p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789027282736 9027282730 1283222108 9781283222105 9789027223531 902722353X |