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Idioms and mental imagery: The metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning
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- Authors
- Gibbs, R. W., & O'Brien, J. E.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1990-07
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 35-68
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2048408653
- Cited by
- 438
- References
- 38
- FWCI
- 3.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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