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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. 321–328

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D. L Ritchie. Feeling, Thinking, and Talking How the Embodied Brain Shapes Everyday Communication. Cambridge University Press, 2022. ISBN 978 1 108 83904 4 (HB) / 978 11 089 7956 6 (EB)

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Open Access publication of this article was funded through a Transformative Agreement with Lancaster University.

Published online: 17 October 2025
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Overview
    • 2.1Key Concepts
    • 2.2Biological, cognitive, and social basis of communication
    • 2.3Conversational and figurative language use
    • 2.4Recap
  • 3.Evaluation
  • References
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