Title Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures : Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language.

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Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2015.

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Series	Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; v.52
	Cognitive Linguistics Research CLR.
Contents	Introductory chapter; Figuration and language history: Universality and variation; Diachronic metaphor research; Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research; Conceptual variation and change; Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor; Loss of the prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment; A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of 'fingers' and 'claws' in Basque.
	The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor:The role of embodiment, culture and semantic fieldFiguration and grammaticalization; The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language; Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese; The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts; Figurative language in culture variation; 'Better shamed before one than shamed before all': Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts; The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis.
	Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach'Thou com'st in such a questionable shape': Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English; Index.
Summary	This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.
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Subject	Metaphor -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Metaphor.
Genre/Form	Cross-cultural studies.
Subject	Metonyms -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Metonyms.
	Figures of speech -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Figures of speech.
	Linguistic change -- Cross-cultural studies.
	Linguistic change.
	Sociolinguistics.
	Sociolinguistics.
	Language and culture.
	Language and culture.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Díaz-Vera, Javier E. Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures : Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, ©2015 9783110335439
ISBN	9783110335453 electronic book
	311033545X electronic book

Title Metaphor and Metonymy across Time and Cultures : Perspectives on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of Figurative Language.

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