Cognitive linguistics and metaphor research: past successes, skeptical questions, future challenges A lingüística cognitiva e a pesquisa sobre metáfora: sucessos passados, questionamentos céticos, futuros desafios
An important reason for the tremendous interest in metaphor over the past 20 years stems from cognitive linguistic research. Cognitive linguists embrace the idea that metaphor is not merely a part of language, but reflects a fundamental part of the way people think, reason, and imagine. A large numb...
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
2006-01-01
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| Series: | DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502006000300003 |