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A Conceptual Metaphor Account of Word Composition : Potentiality of ""Light"" in English and Chinese.
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"...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Foreword; Chapter One; 1.1 Problems and Background; 1.2 Purpose and Significance; 1.3 Methodology and Data Collection; Chapter Two; 2.1 Development of Metaphor Research; 2.1.1 Traditional Approach to Metaphor; 2.1.2 Cognitive Approach to Metaphor; 2.2 Word Composition and Conceptual Metaphor; 2.2.1 Word Composition in English and Chinese; 2.2.2 Construction Motivation of Word Composition; 2.3 Summary; Chapter Three; 3.1 General Introduction to Conceptual Metaphor; 3.1.1 Definition of Conceptual Metaphor.
- 3.1.2 Classification of Conceptual Metaphor3.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions; 3.2.1 Construction of Reality and Language; 3.2.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions; 3.3 Summary; Chapter Four; 4.1 An Overall Introduction of the Case Study; 4.1.1 Choice of Words; 4.1.2 Instruments: Corpus Approach and the Dictionary; 4.1.3 Procedures of the Research; 4.2 Mapping the Entity Light onto the Concrete Domain; 4.2.1 The Domain of Inanimate Objects; 4.2.2 The Domain of Animate Objects; 4.3 Mapping the Entity of Light onto the Abstract Domain.
- 4.3.1 Light Co-occurring with Other Concepts4.3.2 Light as a Sole Concept; 4.4 Summary; Chapter Five; 5.1 Culture and Cultural Models; 5.2 Cultural Models Being Structured by Metaphor; 5.3 Cross-cultural Variations; 5.3.1 Types of Cross-Cultural Variations; 5.3.2 Evidence of Cross-cultural Metaphorical Concepts and Expressions; Chapter Six; 6.1 Summary of Major Findings; 6.2 Practical Implications of the Study; 6.3 Limitations of the Study and Prospects for Future Research; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Appendix 2.