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Yu, Ning and Jie Huang. 2019. Primary Metaphors across Languages: Difficulty as Weight and Solidity. Metaphor and Symbol 34 (2) : 111–126.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conceptualization | crosslinguistic perspective | culture | language | metaphor | speaker | thought
Language as a subject
Chinese | English
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This is a linguistic inquiry of two primary metaphors with the same target concept, “DIFFICULTY IS WEIGHT” and “DIFFICULTY IS SOLIDITY,” in English and Chinese. The inquiry elucidates the reciprocity between language and thought.