The spatial language of time : metaphor, metonymym, and frames of reference / Kevin Ezra Moore, San José State University.

The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof (Africa) but additionally from Japanese and other languages. Metaphors are analyzed in terms of their most direct motivation by basic human...

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Main Author: Moore, Kevin Ezra (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Series:Human cognitive processing ; v. 42.
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