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Publication details [#5339]

Publication type
Article in book  
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Stanford: CSLI Publications

Abstract

This paper concerns a number of difficulties which arise from trying to reconcile the theory of conceptual metaphor with particular metaphorical cases. The problems are of various types - for instance, some concern data while others concern metatheoretical questions about the relationships between metaphors - but all are addressed by an account which treats complex metaphors as "compounds" decomposable into "primitives". (Adele Goldberg)