Publications

Publication details [#32626]

Yu, Ning. 2003. Metaphor, Body, and Culture: The Chinese Understanding of Gallbladder and Courage. Metaphor and Symbol 18 (1) : 13–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | language and culture | medical language | metaphor

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1092-6488

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper deals with the culturally and metaphorically constructed medical characterization of the gallbladder as the basis of the cultural model for the concept of courage in Chinese.