Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language

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Title:

Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language

Author:

Díaz Vera, Javier E., editor.

ISBN:

9783110335439

9783110335453

9783110335460

9783110395396

Physical Description:

vi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cognitive Linguistics Research ; volume 52

Cognitive linguistics research ; 52.

Subject Term:

Metaphor -- Cross-cultural studies.

Metonyms -- Cross-cultural studies.

Figures of speech -- Cross-cultural studies.

Linguistic change -- Cross-cultural studies.

Sociolinguistics.

Language and culture.

Added Author:

Díaz Vera, Javier E.,

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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.

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