Ecosemiotic aspects of zoomorphic metaphors: The human as a predator
Through history, predatory features are used to constructs when constructing textual representations on the human/animal frontier. The predatory act has remained a recurring motif that emerges from a metaphoric system in cultural imagination. An ecosemiotic approach to this topic allows us to unders...
Main Author: | Ariel Gómez Ponce |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Tartu Press
2016-07-01
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Series: | Sign Systems Studies |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/15918 |
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