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Publication details [#43232]
Semino, Elena. 2005. The Metaphorical Construction of Complex Domains: The Case of Speech Activity in English. Metaphor and Symbol 20 (1) : 35–70. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
Annotation
Drawing on metaphorical references to speech activity in a corpus of present-day written British English, this paper discusses the metaphorical construction of spoken English communication.