University Press of America
Pages: 164
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7618-2422-0 • Paperback • October 2002 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
Dilin Liu is Professor and Director of MATESOL at Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Notes on Chinese Names and Translations
Chapter 4 Metaphor and Culture: An Introduction
Chapter 5 Playing on Each Other's Turf: Conflation of Sports, Business, and Politics in America
Chapter 6 Playing Hardball and Hitting for Knockouts: The Hard-fought Games between the Republicans and Clinton/the Democrats
Chapter 7 Fumbles in Wall Street and the Three Strikes and You're Out Law: The Use of Sports Metaphor in Other Areas of American Life
Chapter 8 Buying an Argument and Selling and Agenda in Retail Politics: Business Metaphors in American English
Chapter 9 Dangjia [Managing Family] and Chiku [Eating Bitterness] at Work: Family and Eating in Chinese Culture and Language
Chapter 10 Relatives or neighbors and married-out daughters: Relationships between Mainland China and Taiwan, and Ties between China and the Overseas Chinese
Chapter 11 Human-eating society and Case-eating police: The Use of Eating Metaphors in Chinese
Chapter 12 Spinning Wheels in English and Singing Red and White Faces in Chinese: More Culture-Specific Metaphors
Chapter 13 Drop the Ball vs. Za Guo Le [Break the Cooking Pot]: A Comparison of Cultural Views and Cross-Language Influence in Metaphor Use
Chapter 14 Conclusion
Chapter 15 List of Expressions of Dominant Metaphors
Chapter 16 References
Chapter 17 Index