Publications

Publication details [#19642]

Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide. 1999. Metaphorical mappings in the sense of smell. In Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. and Gerard Steen, eds. Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 175). John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | metaphor

Language as a subject

Basque | English | Spanish

Annotation

Based on data on metaphorical extensions of the conceptual domain of smell, this essay challenges Sweetser's contention that the conceptual domain of smell is weaker than other sense domains with respect to the ease with which metaphorical extensions take place.