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January 2014 Publisher
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Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) is one of the most significant scientific perspectives in contemporary linguistics. Emerging from the cognitive shift in the language sciences, CMT investigates how metaphoric conceptualization motivates language structure and use. This volume, Studies in Conceptual Metaphor Theory, presents an in-depth exploration of this contemporary perspective on metaphor with empirical investigations into various domains of English discourse