A conceptual metaphor account of word composition : potentiality of "light" in English and Chinese /

This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality of “light” in English...

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Main Author:	Zheng, Meihua (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2017]
Subjects:	Metaphor. Linguistics > Methodology. Chinese language. English language.