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This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior. It offers an account of how we use human, animal and plant fixed expressions every day and the cultural aspects hidden behind them. These fixed expressions include various linguistic vehicles, such as fruit, jokes and taboos that are related to speakers’ use in the real world. The linguistic research in Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, German and English furthers our understanding of the cultural value and model of cognition embedded in life-form embodiment languages.

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Author:   Shelley Ching-yu Depner
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   3.577kg
ISBN:  

9789811094491

ISBN 10:   9811094497
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   29 June 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I. Embodiment and Food.- Chapter 2 Food Metaphors in Taiwan Hakka.- Chapter 3 Pragmatic Functions of Hakka Proverbs: Humor, Praise and Food.- Chapter 4 Fruit and Some Plant Vehicles in Mandarin Chinese, English and German.- Part II. Embodiment and Emotion.- Chapter 5 How do Men and Women Express Emotion Differently.- Chapter 6 Taboos in Animal Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.- Chapter 7 Euphemisms in Animal-Fixed Expressions in Mandarin Chinese.- Part III. Embodiment in Broader Contexts.- Chapter 8 The Punchlines of Jokes about Women in Italian, English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.- Chapter 9 Legendary Animal Metaphors in Political and Economic Discourse.- Chapter 10 Prototypical Effect and Cultural Implication of Hakka Proverbs.- Chapter 11 How do Taiwanese Second Language Learners Learn English Body Part Metonymy.- Chapter 12 Conclusion.

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Shelley Ching-yu Depner is a professor at Department of Foreign Languages and Literature in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Tübingen University, Germany in 2001. The focus of her research is a cross-cultural comparison of the cognitive semantics and sociolinguistics of Mandarin Chinese and German.

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