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Key Critical Concepts: Metaphor

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This talk discusses metaphor in literature and everyday language, and its importance for linguists and cognitive scientists. A tool to help us articulate the singularity of our perception, metaphor is also an engine of language change, and may help us understand how our minds grapple with big and abstract concepts.

Date Published: 05 June 2020
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