R. Alejo-González. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics]. Routledge, 2024. 206 pp. ISBN 9781032510576 (HB) / 9781003400905 (EB)

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Wanting Zhou | University of International Business and Economics

Published online: 27 March 2026

https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.26010.zho

Article outline

1.Introduction
2.Overview
3.Evaluation
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R. Alejo-González. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics]. Routledge, 2024. 206 pp. ISBN 9781032510576 (HB) / 9781003400905 (EB)

R. Alejo-González. Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics: Building and Investigating an English as a Medium of Instruction Corpus [Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics]. Routledge, 2024. 206 pp. ISBN 9781032510576 (HB) / 9781003400905 (EB)