Metaphor and the historical
Subtitle: evolution of conceptual mapping
By: Richard Trim
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780230304826
Subjects: Historical linguistics; Information visualization; Metaphor; Language and culture
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualisation processes; title: The thought/language interface; title: Diachronic universality; title: Diachronic conceptual variation; title: Diachronic salience in love analogies; title: Semantic fields and colour; title: Long-term trends; title: Time-specific analogies in war : the Crusades; title: Cultural change in western war mappings since the late Middle Ages; title: Diachronic mapping at the conceptual/linguistic interface; title: Cultural history in the evolution of conceptual mapping.