Review published In: Review of Cognitive Linguistics
Vol. 16:2 (2018) ► pp.528–536
Book review
M. Prandi. Conceptual conflicts in metaphors and figurative language
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Published online: 5 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00021.ber
https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00021.ber
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Organisation of the book
- The book is organised as follows
- The ten chapters can be very briefly described as follows
- 3.Some important proposals of the present book
- Living metaphor
- Metaphor vs. metonymy
- Final conclusion
- 4.Final words
- Notes
References
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Krenmayr, T. (2012). How linguists manipulate metaphors. Metaphor and the Social World, 2(1), 115–120.
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Prandi, M., & de Santis, C. (2011). Le regole e le scelte: Manuale di linguistica e di grammatica italiana. Novara: De Agostini.
