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Publication details [#13221]
Skorczynska, Hanna and Kathleen Ahrens. 2015. A corpus-based study of metaphor signaling variations in three genres. Text & Talk 35 (3) : 359–381. 23 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Open
Abstract
This paper investigates the use of words and phrases that signal metaphors in three genres, namely US presidential addresses, popular science articles and business periodical articles. The authors suggest that the communicative goals within each genre underlie the reasons for the metaphor signaling.