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METAPHOR

A Practical Introduction

Second Edition

ZOLTÁN KÖVECSES

Exercises written with

Réka Benczes

Zsuzsanna Bokor

Szilvia Csábi

Orsolya Lazányi

Eszter Nucz

1 2010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kövecses, Zoltán.

Metaphor : a practical introduction / Zoltán Kövecses ; exercises

written with Szilvia Csábi . . . [et al.].—2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-19-537494-0 (pbk.)

1. Metaphor. I. Csábi, Szilvia. II. Title.

PN228.M4K68 2009

808—dc22

987654321

Printed in the United States of America

on acid-free paper

2009004385