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Article published In: Metaphor in Religion and Spirituality
Edited by Stephen Pihlaja
[Metaphor and the Social World 7:1] 2017
► pp. 26–46

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Metaphors in the conceptualisation of meditative practices

 | Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
 | Department of English Studies, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Published online: 20 July 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Cognitive linguistics and metaphor analysis
  • 3.Method
  • 4.Results and discussion
    • 4.1Metaphors for mind
    • 4.2Metaphors for thought
    • 4.3Metaphors for emotion
    • 4.4Metaphors for meditation
    • 4.5Metaphors for meditator
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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