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Publication details [#8002]
Moder, Carol Lynn. 2008. It's like making soup: Metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse In Tyler, Andrea, Yiyoung Kim and Mari Takada. Language in the Context of Use: Cognitive and Usage-based Approaches to Language and Language Learning (Selected Papers from Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics 2003) (Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter . pp. 301–320. 20 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter
Abstract
Moder emphasizes the importance of studying language in naturally occurring context; she demonstrates that a corpus-based examination of metaphors and similes shows that the two constructions serve different discourse functions.
(Andrea Tyler, Yiyoung Kim, and Mari Takada)