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Time, Metaphor, and Language
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Sarah E. Duffy
Categories: Cognition
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher:

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"Time is fundamental to human experience; we live through it and, thus, seek to better understand it - often by way of metaphor. By bringing together research f
Metaphor in Homer
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Andreas T. Zanker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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How did the Homeric narrator use metaphors of time, speech, and thought to compose and structure the Iliad and Odyssey?
Time, Metaphor and Language
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Sarah E. Duffy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores how metaphoric conceptualizations of time arise from an interplay between space, context, and individual characteristics.
The Spatial Language of Time
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Kevin Ezra Moore
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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The Spatial Language of Time presents a crosslinguistically valid state-of-the-art analysis of space-to-time metaphors, using data mostly from English and Wolof
The Poetics of Time – Metaphors and Blends in Language and Literature
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Anna Piata
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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How does the concept of time, elusive and inconceivable as it may be, lend itself to verbal creativity? Is it possible to trace something like a “poetics of t