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Review published In: Beyond Corpus Data — Complementary and Alternative Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Anton Granvik, Veera Hatakka, Olli O. Silvennoinen, Riku Erkkilä and Eveliina Mäntylä
[Review of Cognitive Linguistics 23:2] 2025
► pp. 666–675

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M. Romano (Ed.). Metaphor in socio-political contexts. Current Crises. Mouton De Gruyter, 2024.

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Published online: 19 September 2025
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