Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36489-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kövecses, Zóltan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Zoltán Kövecses received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988 and 1996, respectively. He is professor emeritus of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.