| Abstrakt: |
"Wojciech Wachowski and Karen Sullivan's book, Metonymies and metaphors for death around the world, offers a comprehensive study of death expressions in languages and cultures across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa. The authors explore the use of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in representing death, providing insights into how different cultures and languages conceptualize and communicate about death. The book examines various cognitive mechanisms and structures, such as part for whole and whole for part metonymies, as well as metaphors like death is sleep and death is a journey. It also highlights the cultural and linguistic variations in death expressions while emphasizing the universal experiences of fear and mourning associated with death. The authors draw from a wide range of data sources, including news articles, literary works, and personal communication, to support their analysis. While the book could benefit from more examples from diverse languages, it is a valuable resource for scholars in cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, and cultural studies." [Extracted from the article] |
