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Metaphor and the Social World
Vol. 2:1 (2012) ► pp. 121–129
Book review

G. Philip. 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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| QLVL, University of Leuven, Belgium
Published online: 07 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.2.1.07ani
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