Re: CHAT: Of high and noble things ...

Wayne Chevrier wrote:
>Andreas Johansson nevesht:
>
>>Just a question for you language typologists out there:
>>
>>Are the identifications "high"="noble" and "low"="vulgar, common" more or
>>less universal, or just a feature of Western traditions?
>>
>
>In Arabic, the metaphor is central and peripheral, not high and low, when
>it
>comes to rank and authority.
Does that imply that it indeed is high vs low in some other shade of meaning
- say morally good vs bad?

                                                   Andreas

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