The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor

A Perspective from Chinese

by Ning Yu

278 pages· 1998· ISBN 9789027223531
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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 cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.

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