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Publication details [#46186]

Svanlund, Jan. 2007. Metaphor and convention. Cognitive Linguistics 18 (1) : 47–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conventionality | corpus analysis | metaphor

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COGL/html

Annotation

Drawing on corpus data regarding co-occurrence patterns for conventionalized metaphors from the WEIGHT domain in Swedish, this paper deals with differences in metaphorical strength and other (graded) conventionality dimensions.