A crosslinguistic, cross-cultural analysis of metaphors in two Italian Sign Language (LIS) registers

Sign Language Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-359

  Russo, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

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EID: 34248715063     PISSN: 03021475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sls.2005.0009     Document Type: Article

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