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Metaphor, Culture, And Worldview » (1st Edition)

Authors: Dilin L. Liu
ISBN-13: 9780761824220, ISBN-10: 0761824227
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Notes on Chinese Names and Translations
Ch. 1	Metaphor and Culture: An Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Playing on Each Other's Turf: Conflation of Sports, Business, and Politics in America	13
Ch. 3	Playing Hardball and Hitting for Knockouts: The Hard-fought Games between the Republicans and Clinton/the Democrats	27
Ch. 4	Fumbles in Wall Street and the Three Strikes and You're Out Law: The Use of Sports Metaphor in Other Areas of American Life	39
Ch. 5	Buying an Argument and Selling an Agenda in Retail Politics: Business Metaphors in American English	49
Ch. 6	Dangjia [Managing Family] and Chiku [Eating Bitterness] at Work: Family and Eating in Chinese Culture and Language	55
Ch. 7	Relatives or neighbors and married-out daughters: Relationships between Mainland China and Taiwan, and Ties between China and the Overseas Chinese	73
Ch. 8	Human-eating society and Case-eating police: The Use of Eating Metaphors in Chinese	87
Ch. 9	Spinning Wheels in English and Singing Red and White Ffaces in Chinese: More Culture-Specific Metaphors	101
Ch. 10	Drop the Ball vs. Za Guo Le [Break the Cooking Pot]: A Comparison of Cultural Views and Cross-Language Influence in Metaphor Use	111
	Conclusion	119
	List of Expressions of Dominant Metaphors	121
	References	137
	Index	147