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This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521184738
ISBN13:9780521184731
Release Date:March 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.8" x 9.7"
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