Metaphors, a ubiquitous feature of human language, reflect mappings from one conceptual
domain onto another. Although founded on bidirectional relations of similarity, their linguistic …

It is widely held that the direction of mapping from the source to the target domain in
metaphors derives directly from the conceptual relations between its members (eg, from …

The title 'Metaphor and diachronic variation'brings together a number of related linguistic
issues. On the one hand, metaphor is a major mechanism of semantic change and there is a …

Views on the role of metaphor in language have varied ever since Aristotle discovered it and
described its features. Traditional accounts of metaphor have seen it as a form of …

The authors of this volume all recognize that the issue of diversity in metaphorical thought is
just as important. In particular, Michael Kimmel (this volume) problematizes the one-sided …

Over the last twenty five years some radical rethinking has taken place in linguistics on the
basic principles in which research had been grounded as of the 1950s. Criticism gradually …

Among the vast number of books which have been published on metaphor in recent years, it
seems there is still a lack of studies concerning one major aspect: its historical evolution …

Cognitive linguists have so far paid a great deal of attention to the remarkable universality of
many conceptual metaphors. However, their theories fail to account for the equally …

To see and appreciate the relationship between metaphor and culture in its complexity, we
have to deal with a number of basic issues. By metaphor in this paper, I will primarily mean …

There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human
language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key …