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International Journal of Learner Corpus ResearchVol. 1:1 (2015) ► pp.182–186
Book review
. Metaphor in Learner English. Corpora and Language Learners. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2013. xi + 277 pp. ISBN 9789027202062 . [Metaphor in Language, Cognition & Communication, 2].
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