A few Metaphorical Models in (Western) Economic Discourse

Boers, Frank; Demecheleer, Murielle

doi:10.1075/cilt.151.10boe

In:Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Wolf-Andreas Liebert, Gisela Redeker and Linda R. Waugh
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 151] 1997
► pp. 115–130

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A few Metaphorical Models in (Western) Economic Discourse

Frank Boers

Murielle Demecheleer

Published online: 31 December 1997

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.151.10boe

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