An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf

An Idea Is a Life Form : An attempt to find evidence of the Conceptual MetaphorTheory by studying the Old English poem Beowulf

This small study concerns occurrences of metaphor, metonymy and conceptual metaphor in the Old English poem Beowulf. The first 224 lines of Beowulf were searched for non-literal passages. Thefound passages were sorted into the groups conventionalized metaphor, metonymy and innovativemetaphor. The co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burman, Anna-Karin
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM) 2014
Subjects:
metaphors
metonymy
conceptual metaphor
Old English
Beowulf
conventionalized metaphors
innovative metaphors
target domains
source domains
corpus studies
and experiential metaphors.
General Language Studies and Linguistics
Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik
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