Metaphor and Its Textual Functions
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Metaphor and Its Textual Functions
Metaphor is, in essence, mapping from the target domain to the source domain; from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. When this happens, the entailments of metaphors as well as the contextual information will be integrated into texts and hence form coherent texts. Thus, it is accessible for us to explore discourse cohesion and coherence from the point view of conceptual m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Language Teaching and Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1798-4769
DOI: 10.4304/jltr.4.5.1117-1125