How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts.
Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. They had a similar semantic meaning and they both contained a lexic...
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier
2017
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136568 |