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Publication details [#19643]

Cienki, Alan. 1999. Metaphors and cultural models as profiles and bases. 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

Annotation

An empirical analysis of two Russian terms for moral categories associated with “honesty”. These metaphorical expressions are analyzed as profiles emerging as positive or negative against a culturally modeled base.