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...
Main Author: | Burman, Anna-Karin |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)
2014
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24265 |
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