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Publication details [#54796]
Graf, Eva-Maria. 2011. Adolescents’ use of spatial TIME metaphors: A matter of cognition or sociocommunicative practice? Journal of Pragmatics 43 (3) : 723–734. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
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Article in journal
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English
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Elsevier
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This paper argues that in accounting for the (developing) usage of spatial TIME metaphors in the language of older children and adolescents, one has to concentrate more on sociocommunicative practices and lexical co-occurrences than on merely cognitive explanations as found in Conceptual Metaphor Theory.