Event structure metaphors through the body : : translation from English to American Sign Language / / Daniel R. Roush.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]
2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Figurative thought and language (FTL), Volume 4
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (242 pages).
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Translating metaphor through the body : changing expressions, changing thoughts
  • Event structure metaphors : conceptualizing events through bodily experience
  • A body of bodily expressions : a corpus-based description of metaphor translation
  • Arriving : understanding events in terms of bodies in locations
  • Obtaining : understanding events in terms of bodies possessing objects
  • Releasing : understanding events in terms of bodies as containers
  • Summary of translating event structure metaphors through the body
  • Conclusion : different bodies, different metaphor preferences?