Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures.
This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Autor principal: | |
Otros Autores: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as gen. |
---|---|
Notas: | Chapter Twenty-FourContributors. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (416 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781527500396 152750039X |