Metaphor in culture: universality and variation
Auteur :
Kövecses, Zoltán
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521844475
Date de publication :
7 févr. 2005
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
660 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation.