Containers, sponges and operating systems: metaphors for language.
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Sep2018 (Volume) 81
Classif
820 ENG
Subject
English literature and language
Page
24 - 26
Authors
Cushing, Ian
Contents
This article shows how metaphors are everywhere in everyday language and explians how linguists analyse them. He also reveals how mataphors frame our thinking about langauage itself.
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