Getting physical with the market: a study of metaphors in the business times

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Getting physical with the market: a study of metaphors in the business times

This study investigates the metaphorical linguistic manifestations of the conceptual metaphor, market movements are physical movements, using Charteris-Black and Ennis’s (2001) notion of conceptual metaphors. Following a corpus linguistic approach for data collection purposes, it analysed 50 unique...

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Main Authors:	Tengku Mahmood, Tengku Farah Petri, Mohd Ali, Afida, Rafik Galea, Shameem, Mohd Kasim, Zalina
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2012
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40843/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40843/1/Getting%20physical%20with%20the%20market%20A%20study%20of%20metaphors%20in%20the%20business%20times%20.pdf

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