Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures: Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language 9783110335453, 9783110335439, 9783110555097

Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures: Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language 9783110335453, 9783110335439, 9783110555097

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The ca

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Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment (Elements in Cognitive Linguistics) 9781009042468, 9781009045582, 100904558X

By exploring the associations that people make between emotions and colours, looking at how they vary across languages,

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On Language and Linguistics 9781474211932

For nearly half a century, Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen in

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Communication Across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation (Expanded and Revised Edition) (Exeter Language and Lexicography) 1905816316, 9781905816316

As in the First Edition, the general aim is still to provide a core text for upper undergraduates and postgraduates taki

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Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics 9783110918243, 9783110182835

The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues conne

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Corpus-Based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy 9783110199895, 9783110186048, 9783110198270

The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have t

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Communication across Cultures: The Linguistics of Texts in Translation [Revised and Expanded] 9781905816309, 9781905816316, 9781905816323, 9781905816330

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Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives 0814341551, 9780814341551

Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in differe

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Cinderella across Cultures : New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives 9780814341568, 9780814341551

The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other

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The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature 9781474244213, 9781474244244, 9781474244237

The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literatu

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