The Metaphorical Use of Boxing Terms in Everyday Language

  • Lan Chen

    Student thesis: Bachelor

    Abstract

    The concern of this essay is to analyze how boxing terminology is used metaphorically in different contexts. The objective is to investigate the targets that these terms as the source domain are most often aimed at, i.e. what is described metaphorically by the use of boxing terms, and to analyze the possible reasons why a particular boxing term is chosen as the source to understand a particular target.

    Date of Award2010-Feb-26
    Original languageEnglish
    SupervisorCarita Lundmark (Supervisor)

    Courses and Subjects

    • English

    University credits

    • 15 HE credits

    Swedish Standard Keywords

    • Specific Languages (60202)

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