A corpus-based study on a man is a lion in Mandarin Chinese and British English

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A corpus-based study on a man is a lion in Mandarin Chinese and British English

Previous studies seldom adopted the corpus as data source to conduct animal research on individual animals. Therefore, based on the GREAT AIN METAPHOR and the categorization of metaphors in terms of its nature, this study focused on the lion metaphors when the target domain is the man.The data for M...

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Main Author:	Lixia, Wei
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2011
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3215/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3215/1/3-Wei_Lixia.pdf

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