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Metaphor and the Social WorldVol. 11:1 (2021) ► pp.171–176
Book review
. Variations in Political Metaphor [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 85]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019. 212 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-0395-3 (HB) / 978-90-272-6221-9 (EB) https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.85
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