Yaning Nie

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yaning Nie plays a role.

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Nie, Yaning and Rong Chen 2008 WATER metaphors and metonymies in Chinese: A semantic network Pragmatics & Cognition 16:3, pp. 492–516 | Article
This paper studies how the concept WATER is metonymically and metaphorically extended to six super-domains: NATURE, LIFE SUSTAINER, MOVEMENT, POWER, PURITY, and WOMAN. We demonstrate that these six target domains are related to each other in intricate ways and within each are a number of… read more