Construal operations in immigration discourse: Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA

Hart, Christopher

doi:10.1075/dapsac.43.09har

In:Critical Discourse Studies in Context and Cognition
Edited by Christopher Hart
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 43] 2011
► pp. 171–192

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Moving beyond metaphor in the cognitive linguistic approach to CDA

Construal operations in immigration discourse

Christopher Hart | Northumbria University

Published online: 17 August 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.43.09har

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