3. Adding sound to the picture: Motivating the lexical composition of metaphorical idioms in English, Dutch, and Spanish

Boers, Frank; Stengers, Hélène

doi:10.1075/pbns.173.05boe

Part of

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach
Edited by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron and Marilda C. Cavalcanti
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 173] 2008
► pp. 63–78

3. Adding sound to the picture: Motivating the lexical composition of metaphorical idioms in English, Dutch, and Spanish

Frank Boers

Hélène Stengers

Published online: 27 March 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.173.05boe

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