Body metaphors - Reading the body in contemporary culture

Collegium Antropologicum

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages 183-189

  Škara, Danica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Body; Contemporary culture; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

BODY BUILD; COMPUTER; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; PERCEPTION; SYMBOLISM;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CULTURE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METAPHOR;

EID: 2442537059     PISSN: 03506134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. FAUCONNIER, G., E. SWEETSER: Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997).
3. LAKOFF, G., M. JOHNSON,: Philosophy in the Flesh. The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought. (Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, New York, 1999).
4. GOZZI, R., The Power of Metaphor in the Age of Electronic Media. (Creskill, New York, 1999).