The Metaphorical Use of Boxing Terms in Everyday Language

The concern of this essay is to analyze how boxing terminology is used metaphorically in different contexts. The objective is to investigate the targets that these terms as the source domain are most often aimed at, i.e. what is described metaphorically by the use of boxing terms, and to analyze the...

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Main Author:	Chen, Lan
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Language:	English
Published:	Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning 2009
Subjects:	Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Specific Languages Studier av enskilda språk
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The Metaphorical Use of Boxing Terms in Everyday Language

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