A conceptual metaphor account of word composition : potentiality of "light" in English and Chinese / Meihua Zheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zheng, Meihua, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Linguistics--Methodology.

Linguistics.

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book describes the emergence of new meanings in two languages, English and Chinese. Drawing on a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a basic instrument of thinking and cognition studies from a conceptual metaphor perspective, probing the compositional potentiality of "light" in English and Chinese, and highlighting the generative mechanism for word composition through metaphorization. The monograph includes detailed discussions of linguistic corpus construction, linguistic manifestations of metaphorization, the main motivation for the formation of metaphorical meanings, and socio-cultural influence in different languages. It expands the scope of previous studies and shows how conceptual metaphor studies can benefit from the use of a corpus methodology by providing not just a description, but an explanation, of how word composition develops. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in metaphor and intercultural studies, as well as cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics and contrastive studies in English and Chinese.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Foreword

Chapter One

1.1 Problems and Background

1.2 Purpose and Significance

1.3 Methodology and Data Collection

Chapter Two

2.1 Development of Metaphor Research

2.1.1 Traditional Approach to Metaphor

2.1.2 Cognitive Approach to Metaphor

2.2 Word Composition and Conceptual Metaphor

2.2.1 Word Composition in English and Chinese

2.2.2 Construction Motivation of Word Composition

2.3 Summary

Chapter Three

3.1 General Introduction to Conceptual Metaphor

3.1.1 Definition of Conceptual Metaphor

3.1.2 Classification of Conceptual Metaphor

3.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions

3.2.1 Construction of Reality and Language

3.2.2 Generative Mechanism Underlying Light Compositions

3.3 Summary

Chapter Four

4.1 An Overall Introduction of the Case Study

4.1.1 Choice of Words

4.1.2 Instruments: Corpus Approach and the Dictionary

4.1.3 Procedures of the Research

4.2 Mapping the Entity Light onto the Concrete Domain

4.2.1 The Domain of Inanimate Objects

4.2.2 The Domain of Animate Objects

4.3 Mapping the Entity of Light onto the Abstract Domain

4.3.1 Light Co-occurring with Other Concepts

4.3.2 Light as a Sole Concept

4.4 Summary

Chapter Five

5.1 Culture and Cultural Models

5.2 Cultural Models Being Structured by Metaphor

5.3 Cross-cultural Variations

5.3.1 Types of Cross-Cultural Variations

5.3.2 Evidence of Cross-cultural Metaphorical Concepts and Expressions

Chapter Six

6.1 Summary of Major Findings

6.2 Practical Implications of the Study

6.3 Limitations of the Study and Prospects for Future Research

Bibliography

Appendix 1

Appendix 2.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-9610-1

OCLC:

1005611329