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On metaphoring : a cultural hermeneutic / Kuang-ming Wu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu, Kuang-ming, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).
- Intercultural communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (688 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2001]
- Summary:
- Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Wu On Metaphoring
- ISBN:
- 9789004453272
- OCLC:
- 1323250702
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