The structure of metaphor: the way the language of metaphor works

Cambridge: Blackwell (1996)
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This volume provides a philosophical introduction to and analysis of the study of metaphor. By proceeding from the concrete analysis of complex metaphors, White is able to identify a range of features which are incompatible with standard accounts of the way words function in metaphor

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B840.W455 1996

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0631168117   9780631168119

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