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Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
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Interacting with wine

Turning a private experience into a public one through meta­phor and genre

 | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Published online: 2 September 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.01cab
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Reviewing wine: The genre of tasting notes
  • 3.The role of figurative language in tasting notes
    • 3.1Metonymy
    • 3.2Metaphor
  • 4.Final remarks
  • Notes
  • References
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