Mapping English Metaphor Through Time

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9780191062025
ISBN-13 : 0191062022
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Book Synopsis Mapping English Metaphor Through Time by : Wendy Anderson

Download or read book Mapping English Metaphor Through Time written by Wendy Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English. Metaphor is one of the hot topics in present-day linguistics, with a huge range of research focusing on the systematic connections between different concepts such as heat and anger (fuming, inflamed), sight and understanding (clear, see), or bodies and landscape (hill-foot, river-mouth). Until recently, the lack of a comprehensive data source made it difficult to obtain an overview of this phenomenon in any language, but this changed with the completion in 2009 of The Historical Thesaurus of English, the only historical thesaurus ever produced for any language. Chapters in this volume use this unique resource as a basis for case studies of semantic domains including Animals, Colour, Death, Fear, Food, Reading, and Theft, providing a significant step forward in the data-driven understanding of metaphor.


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