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Current challenges in metaphor research
Edited by Nina Julich-Warpakowski and Paula Pérez-Sobrino
[Metaphor and the Social World 13:1] 2023
► pp. 120–127
Book review

P. Pérez-Sobrino, J. Littlemore & S. Ford. Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 301 pp. ISBN 9781108473538 (HB) / 9781108562409 (EB)

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| Universitat Jaume I
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Overview
  • 3.Evaluation
  • References
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