Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Contents XI
5. 1 General issues 1
6. 2 Conventional figurative language and phraseology 36
7. 3 On the cross-linguistic equivalence of idioms 73
8. 4 Motivation of conventional figurative units 103
9. 5 “False friends” and paronyms 146
10. 6 The Cognitive Theory of Metaphor 165
11. 7 Idioms of Fear: A cognitive approach 197
12. 8 Cognitive modelling of figurative semantics 217
13. 9 Specific frames: The concept House in language and culture 239
14. 10 Culture and figurative language 262
15. 11 Cultural symbolism in figurative language 325
16. 12 Numeral words and number symbols in culture and language: Case studies 367
17. 13 Animal metaphors and animal symbols: Case studies 404
18. 14 Conclusions 435
19. References 445
20. Abbreviations 483
21. Subject index 485