Merging, masquerading and morphing: Metaphors and the World Wide Web

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 821-843

  Pablo, Zelinna ^a   Hardy, Cynthia ^b  

^a DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discourse; Internet; Metaphors; Websites

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249122067     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840609334951     Document Type: Article

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