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...

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Main Author: Yu, Ning
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1998.
Series:Human Cognitive Processing Ser. ; vol. 1.
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