Why focus on target domains? The importance of domain knowledge in children's understanding of metaphors

Windows to the Mind: Metaphor, Metonymy and Conceptual Blending

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-84

  Glaznieks, Aivars ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

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