How did Jack get in the 'box'? On the container metaphor in the macrocategory of death

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, University of Rzeszów (English Philolohy), course: Linguistics, language: English, abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss the semantic and etymological journey of 3 lexical items, that is "box", "coffin" and "casket" in the context of death related metaphors. It is also to study the linguistic productivity of the terms in question.

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