Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context
Published on 19. September 2019
Book
Hardback
142 pages
978-90-04-36489-9 (ISBN)
Description
The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltan Koevecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-36489-9 (9789004364899)
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Zoltan Koevecses received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988 and 1996, respectively. He is professor emeritus of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest.