Metaphor and metonymy across time and cultures : perspectives on the sociohistorical linguistics of figurative language / edited by Javier E. Díaz-Vera.

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Figuration and language history : universality and variation / Javier E. Díaz-Vera -- Four guidelines for diachronic metaphor research / Dirk Geeraerts -- Lost in transmission? The sense development of borrwed metaphor / Kathryn Allan -- Loss of the prototypical meaning and lexical borrowing : a case of semantic redeployment / Xavier Dekeyser -- A complex adaptive systems approach to language cultural schemas and serial metonymy : charting the cognitive innovations of 'fingers' and 'claws' in Basque / Roslyn M. Frank -- The interface between synchronic and diachronic conceptual metaphor : the role of embodiment, culture and semantic field / Richard Trim -- The pivotal role of metaphor in the evolution of human language / Andrew D. M. Smith and Stefan H. Höfler -- Two counter-expectation markers in Chinese / Miao-Hsia Chang -- The emergence of diathesis markers from motion concepts / Wolfgang Schulze -- 'Better shamed before on than shamed before all' : shaping shame in old english and old norse texts / Javier E. Díaz-Vera and Teodoro Marique-Antón -- The conceptual profile of the lexeme home : a multifactorial diachronic analysis / Dylan Glynn -- Cognitive patterns in greek poetic metaphors of emotion : a diachronic approach / Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas -- 'Thou com'st in such a questionable shape' : embodying the cultural model for ghost acrross the history of english / Juan Gabriel Vázquez González.