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Metaphor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2009

Lynne Cameron  and
Graham Low
Lynne Cameron
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, UK
Graham Low
Affiliation:
University of York, UK
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Language Teaching , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 77 - 96
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