Ruiming Wang

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruiming Wang plays a role.

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Gatambuki Gathigia, Moses, Ruiming Wang, Manqiong Shen, Carlos Tirado, Oksana Tsaregorodtseva, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Ricardo Minervino and Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos 2018 A cross-linguistic study of metaphors of death Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 359–375 | Article
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psychological, social and religious interdictions in language such that people resort to the use of metaphors to avoid confronting death. Under the premise that metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a… read more