Metaphor, theories of concepts and biological reductionism
This thesis is an attempt to present a multidisciplinary approach to adjectival polysemy, particularly adjectival polysemy of a metaphorical type, and its underlying conceptual structure. The last ten years have clearly shown a tendency towards reducing the number of meanings and the idea of metapho...
Main Author: | Rakova, Marina |
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University of Edinburgh
2001
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.660887 |
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