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Publication details [#32635]
Deignan, Alice and Lynne Cameron. 2003. Combining Large and Small Corpora to Investigate Tuning Devices Around Metaphor in Spoken Discourse. Metaphor and Symbol 18 (3) : 149–160. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
ISBN
1092-6488
Annotation
This study examines the presence of "tuning devices" in the cotext of both conventional and innovative metaphors in spoken discourse, suggesting to the hearer how to interpret a metaphor.