The conceptual and the linguistic factors in the use of metaphors

The purely cognitive representation of metaphor poses some difficulties. It is proposed that these difficulties can be tackled down in the alternative view proposed in this article, according to which there is an interdependence of conceptual and linguistic factors in the use of metaphor. Some lingu...

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Main Author: Moura,Heronides Maurílio de Melo (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2006
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Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-44502006000300007
Country:Brazil
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