A corpus-based study on snake metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English

This study is based on the data obtained from the Modern Chinese Corpus compiled by the Center for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University (CCL Corpus) and the British National Corpus (BNC). Via exploring snake metaphors across the two languages within the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory an...

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Main Authors: Wei, Lixia (Author), Wong, Bee Eng (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UKM, 2012-01.
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