Mapping English metaphor through time / Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell, and Carole Hough.

This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from 'The Historical Thesaurus of English'. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the data-driven...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Other Authors:	Anderson, Wendy, 1975- (Editor), Bramwell, Ellen (Editor), Hough, Carole (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	English language > Semantics. English language > Semantics, Historical. Metaphor.