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Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation Kovecses, Zoltan (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest)
Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation
Kovecses, Zoltan (Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest)
Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation.
332 pages, 7 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 7, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521844475 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 334 |
| Dimensions | 236 × 158 × 28 mm · 588 g |
| Language | English |