The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor : a perspective from Chinese.
This comparative study of Chinese and English metaphor contributes to the search for metaphoric universals by placing the contemporary theory of metaphor in a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. The author explores to what degree abstract reasoning is metaphorical and which concep...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1998.
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Colección: | Human Cognitive Processing Ser. ;
vol. 1. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Contemporary Theory: A Review; Chapter 3. Emotion Metaphors; Chapter 4. The Time as Space Metaphor; Chapter 5. The Event Structure Metaphor; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Name Index; Subject Index.