The joy of counting metaphors: Relativity in the socio-economic domain

Boers, Frank

doi:10.1075/cilt.175.04boe

In:Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Gerard J. Steen
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 175] 1999
► pp. 47–56

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The joy of counting metaphors: Relativity in the socio-economic domain

Frank Boers

Published online: 15 June 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.175.04boe

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