Complementary perspectives on metaphor: Cognitive linguistics and relevance theory

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1823-1864

  Tendahl, Markus ^a   Gibbs Jr , Raymond W ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive linguistics; Metaphor; Psycholinguistics; Relevance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049085289     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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