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Did he lead monologues or did he talk to himself? How typological distance between source and target language influences the preservation of metaphorical mappings in translation

Wojciech Lewandowski; Mario Bisiada · 2025 · Linguistics Vanguard

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Abstract Speakers across the world describe a wide range of target domains (e.g., time, emotions) relying on similar metaphorical mappings that use motion as the source domain ( abstract concept is a moving entity: seven o’clock is…

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Metadata source: Crossref · DOI 10.1515/lingvan-2024-0126