By Javier E. Díaz-Vera
This quantity deals new insights into figurative language and its pervasive position as an element of linguistic swap. The case stories integrated during this publication discover the various other ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and unfold between speech groups, and the way those alterations may be on the topic of the necessity to encode ongoing social and cultural approaches within the language. They hide a large sequence of languages and historic phases.
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