<span>This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative co
Figurative Language
✍ Scribed by Dancygier B., Sweetser E.
- Publisher
- CUP
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 260
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Subjects
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Лингвостилистика и лингвопоэтика;
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