"Main description: The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. The authors investigate a wide range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the identification of source domains of metaphorical expressions, the relationship between metaphor and discourse, the priming of metaphors, and the historical development of metaphors."
"Language and the ability to use and acquire language are the most important characteristic of humankind. Linguistics aims at a systematic and scientific study of the wealth of properties of human languages, from different theoretical perspectives, and thu."@en
"Deals with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings. This volume investigates a range of issues - the coherence and function of particular metaphorical models, the interaction of form and meaning, the priming of metaphors, and more."@en