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Publication details [#46190]
Zinken, Jörg. 2007. Discourse metaphors: The link between figurative language and habitual analogies. Cognitive Linguistics 18 (3) : 445–466. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study argues that discourse metaphors constitute an important link between figurative speech and habitual analogies. An analysis of metaphors in a newspaper text corpus backs the prediction of form-specificity of regular analogies.