From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps

Steen, Gerard J.

doi:10.1075/cilt.175.05ste

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. 57–78

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From linguistic to conceptual metaphor in five steps

Gerard J. Steen

Published online: 15 June 1999

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