The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions: Metonymic Hierarchies

Feyaerts, Kurt

doi:10.1075/hcp.4.18fey

In:Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
[Human Cognitive Processing 4] 1999
► pp. 309–332

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Metonymic Hierarchies

The Conceptualization of Stupidity in German Idiomatic Expressions

Kurt Feyaerts

Published online: 15 September 1999

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.4.18fey

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