Publications

Publication details [#32643]

Charteris-Black, Jonathan. 2003. Speaking With Forked Tongue: A Comparative Study of Metaphor and Metonymy in English and Malay Phraseology. Metaphor and Symbol 18 (4) : 289–310.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | evaluation | language and culture | metaphor | metonymy

Language as a subject

English | Malay

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1092-6488

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

A cognitive semantic approach is used to compare the figurative uses of three oral body parts -"mouth," "lip," and "tongue"- in English and Malay phraseology, in order to establish whether either language demonstrates a tendency toward metaphor or metonymy.