Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English : Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter?
English and Swedish, which are both Germanic languages spoken in similar cultures in the Western World, display many similarities with regard to the conceptual metaphors reflected in them. However, the way that the same conceptual metaphor is linguistically instantiated in both languages may be some...
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Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier
2012
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