Metaphor and convention

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 47-89

  Svanlund, Jan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Collocation; Conceptual metaphor; Conventionality; Corpus linguistics; Lexical metaphor; Lexical semantics; Metaphorical strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947386973     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.003     Document Type: Article

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