A Conceptual Metaphor Account of Word Composition : Potentiality of ""Light"" in English and Chinese.

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This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality of "light"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zheng, Meihua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Metaphor.
Linguistics > Methodology.
Chinese language.
English language.
Metaphor
Métaphore.
Linguistique > Méthodologie.
Chinois (Langue)
Anglais (Langue)
metaphor.
Linguistics.
Literature & literary studies.
Cultural studies.
Chinese language
English language
Linguistics > Methodology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality of "light" in English and Chinese, and highlighting the generative mechanism for word composition through metaphorization. The monograph includes detailed discussions of linguistic corpus construction, linguistic manifestations of metaphorization, the main motivation for the formation of metaphorical meanings, and socio-
Descripción Física:1 online resource (123 pages)
ISBN:9781443896108
1443896101

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