Publications

Publication details [#23531]

Nilsen, Alleen Pace. 1990. Virginity: A metaphor we live by. Humor 3 (1) : 3–15.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor

Person as a subject

Johnson, M. | Lakoff, G.

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

An examination of three hundred references to virginity, most of them humorous, which were found to illustrate the principles of Lakoff and Johnson (1980: `Metaphors we live by').