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Vol. 2:1 (2012) ► pp.121–129

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G. Philip. Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 2319 7

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Published online: 7 September 2012
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