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Exploring idiomatic creativity in English as a global language - Pitzl Marie-Luise, Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor. Boston: Mouton De Gruyter, 2018. Pp. xiii + 288. Hardback £91.00, ISBN 978-1-5015-1688-7

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Pitzl Marie-Luise, Creativity in English as a Lingua Franca: Idiom and Metaphor. Boston: Mouton De Gruyter, 2018. Pp. xiii + 288. Hardback £91.00, ISBN 978-1-5015-1688-7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2019

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English Today , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 58 - 60
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