Metaphor and Iconicity

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Hiraga’s work is a good example of how literary study and analysis can inform knowledge in cognitive linguistics about general communicative processes. Hiraga’s contribution to cognitive approaches to literary texts, or “cognitive poetics,” is also significant on two additional levels. It is the first major cognitive linguistic study of two distinct literary traditions—Japanese and English—which arise from their different writing systems.The study also situates written language as a central component of language communication.

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