Event structure metaphors through the body : translation from English to American Sign Language /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roush, Daniel R. (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:	Figurative thought and language (FTL), volume 4
Subjects:	American Sign Language. Metaphor. Interpreters for the deaf. Translating and interpreting. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Translating metaphor through the body : changing expressions, changing thoughts
Event structure metaphors : conceptualizing events through bodily experience
A body of bodily expressions : a corpus-based description of metaphor translation
Arriving : understanding events in terms of bodies in locations
Obtaining : understanding events in terms of bodies possessing objects
Releasing : understanding events in terms of bodies as containers
Summary of translating event structure metaphors through the body
Conclusion : different bodies, different metaphor preferences?