A marriage of convenience or an amicable divorce: Metaphorical blends in the debates on Brexit
The paper investigates the interaction of conceptual blending and conceptual metaphor in producing figurative creativity in discourse. The phenomenon of figurative creativity is defined by Kövecses (2005) as creativity arising through the cognitive mechanisms of metonymy, metaphor, and blending. Spe...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Tuzla, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2017-10-01
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| Series: | ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics) |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2018-0001 |
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