A corpus study of metaphors and metonyms in English and Italian

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1231-1252

  Deignan, Alice ^a   Potter, Liz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual metaphor; Corpus linguistics; English; Italian; Metaphor; Metonymy

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942655252     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.10.010     Document Type: Article

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