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1 online resource (416 pages) |
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This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as gen |
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Chapter Twenty-FourContributors |
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Cognitive grammar.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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Phraseology -- Study and teaching
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Figures of speech.
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Metaphor.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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Linguistics.
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Society & social sciences.
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Cultural studies.
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Cognitive grammar.
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Figures of speech.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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Metaphor.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pinelli, Erica
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| ISBN |
9781527500396 |
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152750039X |
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