Some conceptual and grammatical properties of body part metonymies in English and Bosnian
The paper deals with metonymies having body parts as source domains in English and Bosnian. According to Cognitive Linguistics standpoint, human cognition is based on bodily functioning. Therefore, we started from the hypothesis that most body part metonymies are very similar across languages and cu...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015-10-01
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| Series: | ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/exell-2016-0009 |
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