Figuration and language history: Universality and variation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introductory chapter
4. Figuration and language history: Universality and variation 3
5. Diachronic metaphor research
6. Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research 15
7. Conceptual variation and change
8. Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrowed metaphor 31
9. Loss of prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing: A case of semantic redeployment 51
10. A complex adaptive systems approach to language, cultural schemas and serial metonymy: Charting the cognitive innovations of ‘fingers’ and ‘claws’ in Basque 65
11. The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor: The role of embodiment, culture and semantic field 95
12. Figuration and grammaticalization
13. The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language 123
14. Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese 141
15. The emergence of diathesis markers from MOTION concepts 171
16. Figurative language in culture variation
17. ‘Better shamed before one than shamed before all’: Shaping shame in Old English and Old Norse texts 225
18. The conceptual profile of the lexeme home: A multifactorial diachronic analysis 265
19. Cognitive patterns in Greek poetic metaphors of emotion: A diachronic approach 295
20. ‘Thou com’st in such a questionable shape’: Embodying the cultural model for ghost across the history of English 319
21. Index 349