Time, Metaphor, and Language

Time, Metaphor, and Language
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Download or read book Time, Metaphor, and Language written by Sarah E. Duffy and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time is fundamental to human experience; we live through it and, thus, seek to better understand it - often by way of metaphor. By bringing together research from across disciplines, this pioneering book explores the array of interacting factors that together give rise to our metaphoric understanding of time"--


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