Discourse metaphors: The link between figurative language and habitual analogies

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 445-466

  Zinken, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Discourse metaphor; Figurative meaning; Metaphor theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848852672     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COG.2007.024     Document Type: Article

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