Lisbeth De Laet
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lisbeth De Laet is involved.
Article
2020 A note on the relative diachronic productivity of metaphor and metonymy Changes in Meaning and Function: Studies in historical linguistics with a focus on Spanish, Fernández Jaén, Jorge and Herminia Provencio Garrigós (eds.), pp. 109–116 | Chapter
The assumption that the progress of culture is characterized by an increase in abstract thinking (in terms of the Vygotskyan model of cognitive development) suggests that the proportion of productive metaphor compared to metonymy increases over time. However, a large-scale investigation of… read more