The cultural basis of metaphor revisited

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-128

  Wee, Lionel ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Conceptual understanding; Cultural model; Metaphor; Proper names

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748412736     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.14.1.07wee     Document Type: Article

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