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Publication details [#51288]

Seargeant, Philip. 2009. Metaphors of possession in the conceptualisation of language. Language & Communication 29 (4) : 383–393.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | conceptualization | language contact | metaphor | possession

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper explores the use of possession metaphors in language conceptualisation, taking as example the theoretical terminology employed by Einar Haugen for the description of linguistic borrowing within the language contact context.