On Metaphoring

On Metaphoring
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 688
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ISBN-10 : 9789004453272
ISBN-13 : 900445327X
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Download or read book On Metaphoring written by Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.


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