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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. 367–372
Book review

J. Littlemore. Metaphors in the Mind. Sources of Variation in Embodied Metaphor
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 284 pp. ISBN 978110841566 (HB) / 9781108241441 (EB)

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| University of Messina
Published online: 12 October 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.00024.cuc
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