The Metaphorical Use of Boxing Terms in Everyday Language
The concern of this essay is to analyze how boxing terminology is used metaphorically in different contexts. The objective is to investigate the targets that these terms as the source domain are most often aimed at, i.e. what is described metaphorically by the use of boxing terms, and to analyze the...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Others |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning
2009
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5518 |
| Summary: | The concern of this essay is to analyze how boxing terminology is used metaphorically in different contexts. The objective is to investigate the targets that these terms as the source domain are most often aimed at, i.e. what is described metaphorically by the use of boxing terms, and to analyze the possible reasons why a particular boxing term is chosen as the source to understand a particular target. |
|---|