From perception of spatial artefacts to metaphorical meaning

This chapter compares spatial constructs in mental imagery to spatial constructs in non-metaphorical and metaphorical language. The study is based on a psycholinguistic survey of people’s mental imagery for paths and roads, and a previous corpus-linguistic investigation of path- and road-instances f...

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Main Author: Johansson Falck, Marlene
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier 2012
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-52535
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