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Metaphor and the Social WorldVol. 2:1 (2012) ► pp.121–129
Book review
. Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative Language [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 43]. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011. 232 pp. ISBN 978 90 272 2319 7
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