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By exploring the associations that people make between emotions and colours, looking at how they vary across languages, and exploring the explanations that peop

This volume presents cognitive-linguistic studies on metaphor and metonymy. It includes papers with a theoretical scope and case studies. The topics range from

Explores the physical, psychological and social factors that shape the way in which people engage with embodied metaphor, including, for example, the shape of o

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamenta

Compared with other common nouns, human body words (hereinafter referred to as HBWs) are strikingly polysemous. Cognitive studies of the polysemy of HBWs have o