Liao Meizhen [廖美珍]. The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach [《隐喻性文本与话语的建构: 话语分析方法》]. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. ISBN 978-1-7936-0727-0 312 pp.

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Liao Meizhen [廖美珍]. The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach [《隐喻性文本与话语的建构: 话语分析方法》]. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. ISBN 978-1-7936-0727-0 312 pp.

Liao Meizhen [廖美珍]. The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach [《隐喻性文本与话语的建构: 话语分析方法》]. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. ISBN 978-1-7936-0727-0 312 pp.