The Functioning of the CONTAINER Conceptual Metaphor in Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence

This paper is based on the assumption that there is a system to conceptual metaphor and to its conceptualized linguistic expression. Conceptual metaphor is not a matter of arbitrary fixity. Individual basic metaphors and even generic-level metaphors are not isolated. There is a higher unity to metap...

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Published in:	Crossroads (Białystok, Poland) no. 3 (3); pp. 35 - 46
Main Author:	Monachowicz, Nadzieja
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2013 Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok
Subjects:	conceptualizing container environment Literary Texts metaphor object substance container environment metaphor landlocked substance spaces conceptualizing house room object
ISSN:	2300-6250, 2300-6250
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