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The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference /

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Kevin Ezra (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Human cognitive processing ; v. 42.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human experiences (Grady 1997a; Lakoff & Johnson 1980). This motivation explains the crosslinguistic appearance of certain metaphors, but does not say anything about temporal metaphor systems that deviate from the types documented here. Indeed, we observe interesting culture- and language-specific metaph.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxv, 340 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270658
9027270651
1306705894
9781306705899
ISSN:1387-6724 ;