A discourse-centred perspective on metaphorical meaning and understanding

Metaphor and Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-8

  Zinken, Jörg ^a   Musolff, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230594647_1     Document Type: Editorial

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