Authors:Yuji Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Takagaki, Nobuo Tomimori
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: based, linguistic, informatics, usage, linguistics, perspectives, corpus
Number of Pages: 439
Published: 2007-05-09
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ISBN-10: 9027233187
ISBN-13: 9789027233189

Author: Alice Deigna
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: language, communication, research, evidence, converging, corpus, linguistics, metaphor
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 2005-07-01
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ISBN-10: 9027238928
ISBN-13: 9789027238924

Author: Michaela Mahlberg
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: corpus, studies, linguistics, approach, theoretical, nouns, english, general
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2005-12-30
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ISBN-10: 9027222916
ISBN-13: 9789027222916

Author: Georg Northoff
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: brain, research, consciousness, problem, philosophy, advances
Number of Pages: 443
Published: 2003-09-01
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ISBN-10: 9027251843
ISBN-13: 9789027251848

Author: Mary Snell-Hornby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: approach, integrated, studies, translation
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1556190522
ISBN-13: 9781556190520

Author:
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: issues, linguistic, theory, current, approaches, ideology, cognitive, descriptive, language
Number of Pages: 273
Published: 2001-02-01
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ISBN-10: 9027237123
ISBN-13: 9789027237125

Author: Ning Yu
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: cognitive, processing, vol, human, chinese, theory, metaphor, perspective, contemporary
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 1556192010
ISBN-13: 9781556192012

The primary objective of this volume is to contribute to the contemporary theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, so as to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It explores two major questions faced by the contemporary theory: if abstract reasoning is at least partially metaphorical in nature; and what conceptual metaphors are universal, widespread or culture-specific. The book focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor. It studies how Chinese is similar to and different from English wit