Publications

Publication details [#19646]

Boers, Frank. 1999. The joy of counting metaphors: Relativity in the socio-economic domain. 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 | editorial | metaphor

Annotation

A study of seasonal variation in the frequency of the use of health metaphors in newspaper editorials, illustrating how literally embodied everyday metaphors are.