A cognitive approach to Up/Down metaphors in English and Shang/Xia metaphors in Chinese

Chun, Lan

doi:10.1075/scl.7.11chu

In:Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based approaches
Edited by Bengt Altenberg and Sylviane Granger
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 7] 2002
► pp. 151–174

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A cognitive approach to Up/Down metaphors in English and Shang/Xia metaphors in Chinese

Lan Chun

Published online: 3 May 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.7.11chu

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