Re-viewing Space
Subtitle: Figurative Language in Architects' Assessment of Built Space (Applications of Cognitive Lingistics)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: January 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9783110185201
Subjects: Architecture; Communication Studies; Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Planning; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Linguistics; Description (Rhetoric); Metaphor
First sentence: In his essay "An account of architects and architecture" introducing A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern (the 1664 English translation of a book written in French by Roland Freart), John Evelyn distinguished between four kinds of archite