Methodological problems in the analysis of metaphors in a corpus of conversations about cancer

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1271-1294

  Semino, Elena ^a   Heywood, John ^a   Short, Mick ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer metaphors; Cognitive metaphor theory; Metaphor analysis; Metaphor identification; Steen's five step metaphor identification procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942670525     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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