A Frame-Based Analysis of Synaesthetic Metaphors

The aim of this paper is to use a frame-based account to explain some empirical findings regarding the accessibility of synaesthetic metaphors. Therefore, some results of empirical studies will be discussed with regard to the question of how much it matters whether the concept of the source domain i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hakan Beseoglu, Peter Bücker, Jens Fleischhauer, Wiebke Petersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2008-08-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v3i0.21