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Review published In: Pragmatics & Cognition
Vol. 17:2 (2009) ► pp.450–457

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Reuven Tsur. Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (Second, expanded and updated edition).Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2008. 720 pp. ISBN 978 1 84519 255 6hardcover 978 1 84519 256 6paperback

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Published online: 18 August 2009
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