Browsing Linguistics, Language and Arts by Author "Gibbs, Raymond"
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Children's acquisition of primary metaphors : a crosslinguistic study
Siqueira, Maity Simone Guerreiro; Gibbs, Raymond (2007) [Journal article]This paper demonstrates that metaphor is not simply a literary device, but aparto f technicallinguistic environments. The Theory o f Conceptual Metaphor suggests that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical. ...