Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author names"Fruits are Results": On the Interaction between Universal Archi-Metaphors, Ethno-Specific Culturemes and PhraseologyAntonio Pamies, Lei Chunyi, Margaret CraigThis paper deals with the relation between language, culture and reality, as it manifests itself in figurative words, idioms and proverbs involving the concept of fruit in several language families. Some productive metaphoric macro-models are identified and analysed, archi-metaphors as well as culturemes, analysing how the "experiential" and "cultural" motivational backgrounds can interact. We also investigate how grammatical metaphors depend … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 10 Aug 2015 · 8,447 accessesView PDFCite