To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German

This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. The...

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Main Author: Lodén, Anna
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier 2017
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136839