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- Title: Cross-linguistic metaphor intelligibility between English and German
- Author : Christoph Hesse
- Release Date : January 15, 2015
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Nonfiction,Philosophy,Health, Mind & Body,Psychology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 13396 KB
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Metaphors are more than a linguistic device, they reveal the way different cultures make sense of the world. This book challenges that popular view by highlighting examples where metaphors are not cross-linguistically intelligible even though we know speakers of the respective languages have similar views on the concepts involved. The case study of English and German, two languages with a long-standing and rich exchange of ideas, suggests that non-native speakers notice logical inconsistencies in metaphors that native speakers are unaware of.