Swimming against the current: Do idioms reflect conceptual structure?

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  1999

• Venue

  Journal of Pragmatics

• Publication date

  1999-11-02

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00004-1
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