Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language

by Dilin Liu

Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761824227
• ISBN13: 9780761824220
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.5"