The language of knowledge management: A linguistic approach to metaphor analysis

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-188

  Steen, Gerard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conceptual structures; Knowledge; Linguistic forms; Metaphor; Metaphor identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951927449     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.1087     Document Type: Article

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