Figurative Language
Subtitle: Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives, Volume 13 (Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: April 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780080438702
Subjects: Psycholinguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Semantics
First sentence: One of the most intriguing questions in the field of lexical analysis is the problem of the relationship between the figurative meaning of a lexical unit (idiom, proverb, one-word metaphor, etc.) and the mental image that forms its conceptual basis.