When is a linguistic metaphor conceptual metaphor?

Casasanto, Daniel

doi:10.1075/hcp.24.11cas

In:New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
[Human Cognitive Processing 24] 2009
► pp. 127–145

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When is a linguistic metaphor conceptual metaphor?

Daniel Casasanto

Published online: 24 June 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.24.11cas

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