Lexical priming and metaphor : application of the theory of lexical priming to metaphoric language

Metaphoricity is often regarded as a distinctive linguistic phenomenon, in opposition to literal, or non-figurative language. Recent research from a corpus-linguistic perspective has begun to show, however, that such a dichotomist stance to metaphor does not bear scrutiny. Current categorization of...

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Main Author: Patterson, K. J.
Published: University of Liverpool 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.706698