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Metaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective
Edited by Katrin Ahlgren, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson
[Metaphor and the Social World 11:2] 2021
► pp. 360–366
Book review

A. Piquer-Píriz & R. Alejo-González (Eds.). Metaphor in Foreign Language Instruction
Berlin & Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 2020. 285 pp. ISBN 9783110626735 (HB) / 9783110630367 (EB)

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| University of Glasgow
Published online: 12 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.00023.zac
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