TY - BOOK T1 - Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach T2 - Publications of the Philological Society Y1 - 2009 A1 - Allan, Kathryn KW - metaphor KW - rhetorics KW - метафора KW - реторика AB -

The way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy; for example, it is common to describe people as ‘bright’ or ‘thick’. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, considering the range of cognitive mechanisms and cultural factors that can inform metaphorical and metonymical mappings.

JF - Publications of the Philological Society PB - Wiley-Blackwell SN - 9781405190855 ER -