Are ‘deliberate’ metaphors really deliberate?: A question of human consciousness and action

Metaphor and the Social World

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-52

  Gibbs, Raymond W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84989395454     PISSN: 22104070     EISSN: 22104097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/msw.1.1.03gib     Document Type: Article

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