Publications

Publication details [#32641]

Deignan, Alice. 2003. Metaphorical Expressions and Culture: An Indirect Link. Metaphor and Symbol 18 (4) : 255–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | language and culture | metaphor

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1092-6488

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

According to the corpus data examined in this study, metaphorical expressions do not constitute a synchronic reflection of culture, but rather an incomplete cultural reliquary.