Kennings as Blends and Prisms

This paper argues that recent advances in cognitive linguistics could shed more light onto solving a particular historical semantics problem, namely the semantics of kennings in Beowulf. The well-known figures of speech are very difficult to understand because of a rather enigmatic way of making ref...

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Permalink: http://skupni.nsk.hr/Record/ffzg.KOHA-OAI-FFZG:309550
Matična publikacija: Jezikoslovlje
12 (2011), 2 ; str. 165-186
Glavni autor: Broz, Vlatko (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng