Metaphors among titles of medical publications: an observational study

In this study, we attempted to determine the frequency and types of metaphors in a corpus of titles from a single medical journal collected over one year. The frequency of metaphor tokens (4.6%) was highest among editorials and other opinion articles and consisted predominantly of primary metaphors,...

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Main Author: Philippa Mungra
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2007-10-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/14-06_mungra.pdf