The contemporary theory of metaphor - Now new and improved!

Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 26-64

  Steen, Gerard J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Language; Linguistics; metaphor; Psychology; Social science; Thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047687946     PISSN: 18779751     EISSN: 1877976X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/rcl.9.1.03ste     Document Type: Review

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