Evidence against linguistic relativity in Chinese and English: A case study of spatial and temporal metaphors

Journal of Cognition and Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 335-357

  Tse, Chi Shing ^a,b   Altarriba, Jeanette ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Boroditsky; Chinese; Linguistic relativity; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849216717     PISSN: 15677095     EISSN: 15685373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853708X358218     Document Type: Article

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