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Publication details [#14170]
Glucksberg, Sam and Matthew S. McGlone. 1999. When love is not a journey: What metaphors mean. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (12) : 1541–1558. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
Opposing Lakoff's position that metaphoric correspondences mediate our understanding metaphorical language, the authors describe a 'minimalist' approach to metaphor in which comprehension is seen as a search for an 'attributive category', exemplified by the metaphor vehicle.