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Figurative Uses of Finger and Palm in Chinese and English

Ning Yu
Pages 159-175 | Published online: 17 Nov 2009

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Ning Yu. (2003) Metaphor, Body, and Culture: The Chinese Understanding of Gallbladder and Courage . Metaphor and Symbol 18:1, pages 13-31.
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Song-Eun Lee & 민수정. (2018) An Alternative Approach for Understanding Second Language Texts: Prototype Effects in L2 Writing. The Journal of Studies in Language 34:2, pages 233-247.
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征 张. (2018) The “Eyes” of A Dream of Red Mansions—The Corpus-Based Interpretation of Visual Metaphor and Metonymy. Modern Linguistics 06:03, pages 539-550.
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Adisa Imamović & Anela Mulahmetović Ibrišimović. (2015) Some conceptual and grammatical properties of body part metonymies in English and Bosnian. ExELL 3:1, pages 26-39.
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최은영. (2014) Korean Learners’ Comprehension of English Metaphoric Expressions and Certainty of Meanings. English Language and Linguistics 20:3, pages 179-200.
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Mei Yung Vanliza Chow. (2014) The movements of the economy. Metaphor and the Social World 4:1, pages 3-26.
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Judit Simó. (2011) Metaphors of blood in American English and Hungarian: A cross-linguistic corpus investigation. Journal of Pragmatics 43:12, pages 2897-2910.
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Ning Yu. 2009. The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective. The Chinese HEART in a Cognitive Perspective.
Ning Yu. 2012. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought 247 261 .
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt. (2008) Much mouth much tongue: Chinese metonymies and metaphors of verbal behaviour. Cognitive Linguistics 19:2.
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Chang-Le Zhou, Yun Yang & Xiao-Xi Huang. (2007) Computational Mechanisms for Metaphor in Languages: A Survey. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 22:2, pages 308-319.
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Charles Forceville. (2005) Visual representations of the idealized cognitive model of anger in the Asterix album La Zizanie. Journal of Pragmatics 37:1, pages 69-88.
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Ning Yu. (2004) The eyes for sight and mind. Journal of Pragmatics 36:4, pages 663-686.
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Ning Yu. (2003) Chinese metaphors of thinking. Cognitive Linguistics 14:2-3.
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