Metaphor, Culture, And Worldview
Using dominant metaphors in American English and the Chinese language, Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview explores how metaphor is a product that is simultaneously shaped by and is shaping the culture and the worldview of the people who use it, and how it showcases some unique features of communication of the speakers of the two languages. Using examples mostly from media and other public speeches and writings, author Dilin Liu argues that sports and business constitute the dominant metaphors...
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PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on Chinese Names and TranslationsCh. 1Metaphor and Culture: An Introduction1Ch. 2Playing on Each Other's Turf: Conflation of Sports, Business, and Politics in America13Ch. 3Playing Hardball and Hitting for Knockouts: The Hard-fought Games between the Republicans and Clinton/the Democrats27Ch. 4Fumbles in Wall Street and the Three Strikes and You're Out Law: The Use of Sports Metaphor in Other Areas of American Life39Ch. 5Buying an Argument and Selling an Agenda in Retail Politics: Business Metaphors in American English49Ch. 6Dangjia [Managing Family] and Chiku [Eating Bitterness] at Work: Family and Eating in Chinese Culture and Language55Ch. 7Relatives or neighbors and married-out daughters: Relationships between Mainland China and Taiwan, and Ties between China and the Overseas Chinese73Ch. 8Human-eating society and Case-eating police: The Use of Eating Metaphors in Chinese87Ch. 9Spinning Wheels in English and Singing Red and White Ffaces in Chinese: More Culture-Specific Metaphors101Ch. 10Drop the Ball vs. Za Guo Le [Break the Cooking Pot]: A Comparison of Cultural Views and Cross-Language Influence in Metaphor Use111Conclusion119List of Expressions of Dominant Metaphors121References137Index147
