Metaphor variation across cultures: Evidence from English-Chinese-Czech parallel literary texts
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The present paper addresses the usefulness of parallel literary texts in studying metaphor variation across languages and cultures, which is expected to help define cultural linguistics as a multi-disciplinary field by attracting scholars in contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics, stylistics, translation, and literary studies. The role of cultural context has been extensively recognized in metaphor studies. Different languages and cultures provide their users with different socio-cultural environments, with which the speakers understand, conceptualize and interact with the world around them. Accordingly, the metaphor (or the source concept) that different languages and cultures may utilize in talking about the same event is bound to vary. |