A Semantic Study of Foot Metaphors and Metonymies in Chinese

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 外國語文學系專班 === 96 === The aim of the thesis is to find out foot metaphors and metonymies from jiao3 腳 and zu2 足 expressions in Chinese. The theoretical background is: (a) Heine’s (1997) notion that certain body parts can refer to abstract schematic notions; (b) Traugott & Dasher’...

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Main Authors: Mei-ru Yen, 顏梅如
Other Authors: Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40546985519644934571