Metaphor and Metonomy across Time and Cultures - Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language

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.

About the author

Javier E. Díaz Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

Product details

• Assisted by: Javier E. Díaz-Vera (Editor), Javie E Díaz-Vera (Editor), Javier E Díaz-Vera (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2014
• EAN: 9783110335439
• ISBN: 978-3-11-033543-9
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 21 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research; Mouton de Gruyter; Cognitive Linguistics Research (CLR); De Gruyter Mouton; Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; Cognitive Linguistics Research; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics