On the conceptual, cultural and discursive motivation of Greek pain lexicalizations

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 393-434

  Marmaridou, Sophia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cultural models; Discourse genres; Greek; Image schemas; Metaphor; Motivation; Pain constructions; Pain lexicalizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750178206     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2006.012     Document Type: Article

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