The selective advantage of body-part terms
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The selective advantage of body-part terms
This paper addresses the question why body-part terms are so often used to talk about other things than body parts. It is argued that the strategy of falling back on stable common ground to maximize the chances of successful communication is the driving force behind the selective advantage of body-part terms. The many different ways in which languages may implement this universal strategy sugge...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pragmatics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0378-2166
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.11.008