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The Role of Conceptual Metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS in Understanding the Differences and Similarities between Cultures of Croatian and Anglo-Saxon Speaking Areas

The aim of this paper is to provide a review and analysis, within the cognitive linguistic paradigm, of the role of conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS in understanding the differences and similarities between cultures of Croatian and Anglo-Saxon speaking areas.The analysis starts with the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE PLANTS, the existence of which is confirmed by linguistic expressions analyz…

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Contributors

  • Brdar, Mario

Creator

  • Čizmar, Ivana

Publisher

  • Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Subject

  • HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. Croatian Studies.
  • Croatian language
  • English language
  • cognitive linguistics
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • cultural models
  • PEOPLE ARE PLANTS
  • HUMANISTIC SCIENCES. Philology. Anglistics.

Type of item

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
  • text

Date

  • 2016-06-15
  • 2016-06-15