Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can b...

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Main Author Javier E. Díaz-Vera
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2014
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition1
SeriesCognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]
Subjects
Cognitive Linguistics
Cross-cultural studies
Figurative Language
Figures of speech
Language
Language and culture
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Linguistic change
Metaphor
Metonyms
Sociolinguistics
Figurative Language
Linguistic Change
Cognitive Linguistics
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Summary:This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.
ISBN:9783110335453
311033545X
9783110395396
3110395398
9783110335439
3110335433
9783110555097
3110555093
DOI:10.1515/9783110335453