A cognitive analysis of snake and lion metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English

Not only are studies on animal expressions relatively few (Hsieh, 2004; Hsieh, 2006),but studies conducted cross-linguistically are scarce (Talebinejad and Dastjerdi, 2005). In addition, most previous studies on animal metaphors have been based on data collected from dictionaries or surveys and the...

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Auteur principal: Wei, Lixia
Format: Thèse
Langue:anglais
Publié: 2012
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Accès en ligne:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31987/1/FBMK%202012%2010R.pdf