Tall stories: The metaphorical nature of everyday talk

English in Education

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 4-13

  Goddard, Angela ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Everyday discourse; Metaphor; Spoken english

Indexed keywords

EID: 24244470889     PISSN: 04250494     EISSN: 17548845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-8845.1996.tb00114.x     Document Type: Article

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3. Lakoff, G., and Johnson, M., (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Whorf, B.L., (1956) Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (ed. John B.Carroll). Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.