Colouring meaning : collocation and connotation in figurative language /
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several leve...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011
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| Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 43. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
