Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Díaz-Vera, Javier E. (Editor , Herausgeber)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton 2015
Colección:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 52
Temas:
Figures of speech > Cross-cultural studies.
Language and culture.
Linguistic change > Cross-cultural studies.
Metaphor > Cross-cultural studies.
Metonyms > Cross-cultural studies.
Sociolinguistics.
Langage et culture.
Changement linguistique > Études transculturelles.
Métaphore > Études transculturelles.
Métonymie > Études transculturelles.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
Figures of speech
Language and culture
Linguistic change
Metaphor
Metonyms
Sociolinguistics
Metapher
Metonymie
Interkulturalität
Soziolinguistik
(Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)LAN009000
EBK: eBook
(VLB-WN)9561
Cross-cultural studies
Aufsatzsammlung
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figuration and language history: Universality and variation / Díaz-Vera, Javier E.
  • Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research / Geeraerts, Dirk
  • Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor / Allan, Kathryn
  • Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment / Dekeyser, Xavier
  • A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of 'fingers' and 'claws' in Basque / Frank, Roslyn M.
  • The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field / Trim, Richard
  • The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language / Smith, Andrew D.M. ; Höfler, Stefan H.
  • Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese / Chang, Miao-Hsia
  • The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts / Schulze, Wolfgang
  • 'Better shamed before one than shamed before all': Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts / Díaz-Vera, Javier E. ; Manrique-Antón, Teodoro
  • The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis / Glynn, Dylan
  • Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach / Cánovas, Cristóbal Pagán
  • 'Thou com'st in such a questionable shape': Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English / González, Juan Gabriel Vázquez
  • Index.

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