“Conventional” and “dead” metaphors revisited

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs

doi:10.1075/cilt.29.04clo

In:The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought
Edited by Wolf Paprotté and René Dirven †
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 29] 1985
► pp. 17–56

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“Conventional” and “dead” metaphors revisited

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Published online: 1 January 1985

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