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1 online resource (123 pages) |
| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Foreword; Chapter One; 1.1 Problems and Background; 1.2 Purpose and Significance; 1.3 Methodology and Data Collection; Chapter Two; 2.1 Development of Metaphor Research; 2.1.1 Traditional Approach to Metaphor; 2.1.2 Cognitive Approach to Metaphor; 2.2 Word Composition and Conceptual Metaphor; 2.2.1 Word Composition in English and Chinese; 2.2.2 Construction Motivation of Word Composition; 2.3 Summary; Chapter Three; 3.1 General Introduction to Conceptual Metaphor; 3.1.1 Definition of Conceptual Metaphor |
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3.1.2 Classification of Conceptual Metaphor3.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions; 3.2.1 Construction of Reality and Language; 3.2.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions; 3.3 Summary; Chapter Four; 4.1 An Overall Introduction of the Case Study; 4.1.1 Choice of Words; 4.1.2 Instruments: Corpus Approach and the Dictionary; 4.1.3 Procedures of the Research; 4.2 Mapping the Entity Light onto the Concrete Domain; 4.2.1 The Domain of Inanimate Objects; 4.2.2 The Domain of Animate Objects; 4.3 Mapping the Entity of Light onto the Abstract Domain |
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4.3.1 Light Co-occurring with Other Concepts4.3.2 Light as a Sole Concept; 4.4 Summary; Chapter Five; 5.1 Culture and Cultural Models; 5.2 Cultural Models Being Structured by Metaphor; 5.3 Cross-cultural Variations; 5.3.1 Types of Cross-Cultural Variations; 5.3.2 Evidence of Cross-cultural Metaphorical Concepts and Expressions; Chapter Six; 6.1 Summary of Major Findings; 6.2 Practical Implications of the Study; 6.3 Limitations of the Study and Prospects for Future Research; Bibliography; Appendix 1; Appendix 2 |
| Summary |
This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality of "light" in English and Chinese, and highlighting the generative mechanism for word composition through metaphorization. The monograph includes detailed discussions of linguistic corpus construction, linguistic manifestations of metaphorization, the main motivation for the formation of metaphorical meanings, and socio- |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Metaphor.
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Linguistics -- Methodology.
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Chinese language.
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English language.
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Metaphor
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metaphor.
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Linguistics.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Cultural studies.
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Chinese language
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English language
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Linguistics -- Methodology
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Metaphor
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781443896108 |
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1443896101 |
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