STRUCTURAL SEMANTIC FEATURES OF METAPHORS: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH AND UZBEK

Abstract

A highly influential academic contribution that directly targets the intersection of structural grammar and cognitive semantics in figurative language is developed in 'Metaphor and Lexical Semantics' by Michael Glanzberg (2007). While contemporary cognitive approaches frequently treat metaphors as abstract, purely conceptual mappings that exist independently of specific linguistic structures, Glanzberg bridges the gap by analyzing the strict linguistic and structural constraints that dictate exactly how and where a metaphor can form in a sentence