Ruiming Wang
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ruiming Wang is involved.
Article
2018 A cross-linguistic study of metaphors of death Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5:2, pp. 359–375 | Article
The avoidance of directly addressing human mortality indicates fear of death. This fear elicits psychological, social and religious interdictions in language such that people resort to the use of metaphors to avoid confronting death. Under the premise that metaphor is a conceptual mapping from a… read more
