Publications

Publication details [#38909]

Yu, Ning. 2004. The eyes for sight and mind. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (4) : 663–686.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

body part terminology | crosslinguistic perspective | metaphor | metonymy

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper examines metonymic and metaphoric expressions holding body-part terms for the eye(s) in Chinese and investigates similar English expressions to provide a cross-linguistic perspective.