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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.
Price: $160.99
Pages: 356
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date:
17 November 2014
ISBN: 9783110335439
Format: Hardcover
Javier E. Díaz Vera, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.