Mapping concepts: Understanding figurative thought from a cognitive-linguistic perspective

The notion of “conceptual mapping”, as a set of correspondences between conceptual domains, was popularized in Cognitive Semantics, following seminal work by Lakoff & Johnson (1980), as a way of accounting for the basic cognitive activity underlying metaphor and metonymy. Strangely enough, Cogni...

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Published in:Revista española de lingüística aplicada 2014-01, Vol.27 (1), p.187-207
Main Author: Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José
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Semantics
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