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Publication details [#55091]

Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. 2011. Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Discourse Processes 48 (8) : 529–562.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | conceptual dependency theory | linguistics | metaphor, processing of | psychology

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper offers an assessment of the linguistic and psychological evidence bolstering “conceptual metaphor theory” (CMT), and reacts to some of the criticisms on CMT provided by scholars within cognitive science.