Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 303-325

  Condit, Celeste M ^a   Bates, Benjamin R ^a   Galloway, Ryan ^a   Givens, Sonja Brown ^b   Haynie, Caroline K ^d   Jordan, John W ^c   Stables, Gordon ^a   West, Hollis Marshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Milwaukee ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Audience studies; Genetic determinism; Genetics; Metaphor; Polysemy; Reception studies; Rhetoric of science; Science communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038891619     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630209384379     Document Type: Article

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