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Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language
This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
2015
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| Colección: | Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages. |
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| Notas: | Lizenzpflichtig |
| Descripción Física: | Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 9783110395396 3110395398 9783110335453 311033545X |