Fortune and her wheel : a cognitive linguistic approach
This thesis is a cognitive linguistic analysis of the concept of fortune and how it has changed over time. It examines the history of the word 'fortune' and what meanings it has had, the representation of Fortune as a human-like personality that interacts with humans, and the use of the ‘w...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44737 |