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Publication details [#55232]

Wilson, Deirdre. 2011. Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics. Intercultural Pragmatics 8 (2) : 177–196.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | image | language and thought | metaphor | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

After drawing some parallels and differences between cognitive linguistic and relevance theoric approaches to metaphor, this study discusses how they might be combined to provide a fuller representation of the role of metaphor in language and thought.