Are Religious Metaphors Rooted in Experience? On Ezekiel's Wedding Metaphors

Ralph André Bisschops

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Bible Through Metaphor and Translation
Subtitle of host publicationA Cognitive Semantic Perspective
EditorsKurt Feyaerts
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherPeter Lang 
Pages113-151
Number of pages39
ISBN (Print)978-3-906769-82-0
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

NameReligions and Discourse
PublisherPeter Lang
Volume15

Keywords

  • metaphor, wedding-metaphors, God is a groom, Israel is a Bride, cognitive source domain, cognitive target domain, pragmatics, experiential grounding, George Lakoff, Marc Johnson

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