Chapter 8
Conclusion
Different bodies, different metaphor preferences?
Article outline
- Implications of the research results
- The universality of the location and object branches of ESMs
- The variation of Event-Structure Metaphors and its implication for translation
- Alternative metaphors
- Preferential conceptualization
- The prominence of the newly proposed Container-ESM branch in ASL
- The usefulness of a cognitive-descriptive framework for studying metaphor in translation and metaphor variation
- Limitations of the study
- Future directions
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