The inflexibility of invariance

Language and Literature

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 125-142

  Stockwell, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Gibson, William; Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM); Interpretation; Invariance hypothesis; Metaphor; Prototypes; Salience; Surrealism

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644242908     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709900800202     Document Type: Article

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