Ten Lectures on Figurative Meaning-Making: The Role of Body and Context

by Zoltan Kovecses

Overview

The present book contains a transcribed version of the lectures given by Professor Zoltán Kövecses in November 2010 as one of the three forum speakers for the 8th China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics. The topics presented in this book deal with the language and conceptualization of emotions, cross-cultural variation in metaphor, metaphor and metonymy in discourse, and the issue of the relationship between language, mind, and culture from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004364899
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/28/2019
Series:	Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics Series , #9
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Zoltán Kövecses received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1988 and 1996, respectively. He is professor emeritus of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.