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By word of mouth : metaphor, metonymy, and linguistic action in a cognitive perspective
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ISBN: 9027250456 9027282714 1283222086 9786613222084 9789027282712 9789027250452 1556193262 9781556193262 Year: 1995 Volume: new ser. 33 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,

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This volume contains seven synchronic and diachronic empirical investigations into the expression and conceptualization of linguistic action in English, focusing on figurative extensions. The following issues are explored: Source domains, and their relation to the complexities of linguistic action as a target domain. The role of axiological parameter, the experiential grounding of metaphors expressing value judgements and the part played by image-schemata, how value judgements come about and their socio-cultural embedding. The graded character of metaphoricity and its corr

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