The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to cultural and situational variation. The d

Offers an extended, improved version of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), updating it in the context of current linguistic theory.

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlanti

This volume looks at spatialization of abstract concepts in verbo-pictorial aphorisms at work in the cartoons of a single artist. While extensive work has been

The book presents the result of several diachronic corpus studies of conceptual metaphor in a longitudinal and emperical mixed methods design, employing both qu