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In:Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language
Daniel R. Roush
[Figurative Thought and Language 4] 2018
► pp. 171–184

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Chapter 8
Conclusion

Different bodies, different metaphor preferences?

Published online: 28 June 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.4.c8

Article outline

Implications of the research results
- The universality of the location and object branches of ESMs
- The variation of Event-Structure Metaphors and its implication for translation
  - Alternative metaphors
  - Preferential conceptualization
- The prominence of the newly proposed Container-ESM branch in ASL
- The usefulness of a cognitive-descriptive framework for studying metaphor in translation and metaphor variation
Limitations of the study
Future directions
Notes