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Metaphor and Metonymy

Metaphor and Metonymy

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Series: Publications of the Philological Society, Book 42

Linguistics

ISBN10: 140519085X
ISBN13: 9781405190855
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Mar 1 2009
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy; for example, it is common to describe people as 'bright' or 'thick'. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical mappings.


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