Dilin Liu

Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview

The Case of American English and the Chinese Language

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780761824220
• ISBN-10: 0761824227
• Artikelnr.: 21160171

Autorenporträt

Dilin Liu is Professor and Director of MATESOL at Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Notes on Chinese Names and Translations
Chapter 4 Metaphor and Culture: An Introduction
Chapter 5 Playing on Each Other's Turf: Conflation of Sports, Business, and
Politics in America
Chapter 6 Playing Hardball and Hitting for Knockouts: The Hard-fought Games
between the Republicans and Clinton/the Democrats
Chapter 7 Fumbles in Wall Street and the Three Strikes and You're Out Law:
The Use of Sports Metaphor in Other Areas of American Life
Chapter 8 Buying an Argument and Selling and Agenda in Retail Politics:
Business Metaphors in American English
Chapter 9 Dangjia [Managing Family] and Chiku [Eating Bitterness] at Work:
Family and Eating in Chinese Culture and Language
Chapter 10 Relatives or neighbors and married-out daughters: Relationships
between Mainland China and Taiwan, and Ties between China and the Overseas
Chinese
Chapter 11 Human-eating society and Case-eating police: The Use of Eating
Metaphors in Chinese
Chapter 12 Spinning Wheels in English and Singing Red and White Faces in
Chinese: More Culture-Specific Metaphors
Chapter 13 Drop the Ball vs. Za Guo Le [Break the Cooking Pot]: A
Comparison of Cultural Views and Cross-Language Influence in Metaphor Use
Chapter 14 Conclusion
Chapter 15 List of Expressions of Dominant Metaphors
Chapter 16 References
Chapter 17 Index