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Direct linkOzcaliskan, Seyda – Journal of Child Language, 2005
Situated within the framework of the conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), this study investigated young children's understanding of metaphorical extensions of spatial motion. Metaphor was defined as a conceptual-linguistic mapping between a source and a target domain. The study focused on metaphors that are structured by the source…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Linguistics, Figurative Language, Motion
