Metaphor in Culture: Universality and Variation

by Zoltán Kövecses

Book Overview

To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521696127
• ISBN13: 9780521696128
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"