Keeping Morality “on the Straight” and Never “on the Bend”: Metaphorical Representations of Moral Concepts in Straightness and Curvature

The study of moral conceptual metaphors has been an important topic in recent years. In Chinese culture, the concepts of curvature and straightness are given certain semantic contents, in which curvature refers to being sly while straightness refers to having integrity. In the present study, we used...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyan Zhu, Yanbing Huang, Wenxuan Liu, Zhao Yu, Yan Duan, Xianyou He, Wei Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Behavioral Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/13/4/295