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There is a growing interest in cognitive approaches to literature in recent years; undoubtedly conceptual metaphor has become one of the favourite topics for analysis. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By (1980), assert that metaphor is not just a matter of words; rather it is inhe...

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Main Author: Motlagh Afsaneh Askar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-12-01
Series:Romanian Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2020-0006