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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
In this book, Earl Mac Cormac presents an original and unified cognitive theory of metaphor using philosophical arguments which draw upon evidence from psycholo
Language: en
Pages: 487
Pages: 487
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Metaphor pervades discourse and may govern how we think and act. But most studies only discuss its verbal varieties. This book examines metaphors drawing on com
Language: en
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cros