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Review published In: Embodied, Social, and Creative Dimensions of Metonymy
Edited by Marlene Johansson Falck and Thomas Wiben Jensen
[Metaphor and the Social World 15:2] 2025
► pp. 329–335

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A. Baicchi. Figurative meaning construction in thought and language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. 321 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 0705 0 (HB) / 978 90 272 6102 1 (EB) https://​doi​.org​/10​.1075​/ftl​.9

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Published online: 21 October 2025
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