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"...

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Main Author: Zheng, Meihua
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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