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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-18 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-18 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
This groundbreaking collection of essays by a host of international authorities addresses the many aspects of the Danse Macabre, a subject that has been too oft
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-29 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like 'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire 'Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the metaphors pac
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-05-19 - Publisher: Clarendon Press
Objects of Metaphor contains a philosophical account of the phenomenon of metaphor radically different from those currently on offer. Yet for all that it is dif
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-28 - Publisher: Routledge
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life