Metaphor: Does it constitute or reflect cultural models?

Kövecses, Zoltán

doi:10.1075/cilt.175.10kov

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. 167–188

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Metaphor: Does it constitute or reflect cultural models?

Zoltán Kövecses

Published online: 15 June 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.175.10kov

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