Animal Kingdom as a Donor Domain for Metalinguistic Expressions

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar "Metalanguage - abstract and imagistic", language: English, abstract: A property of human language which makes it stand out among the ways living creatures communicate is its reflexive capacity. This ...