figurative

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Sources

• NASH 1968 78-79 (also "figurative speech", "figurative style")

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• WALES 1989 175-176

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• GREIMAS 1983[trans.] 88 (figurative denomination)

  GREIMAS, A.J. (1983 [trans.]) Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method. Trans. by Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer & Alan Velie.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

• Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.] 302 (also "figurativeness")

  DUCROT, Oswald and TODOROV, Tzvetan. (1979 [trans.]) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 73 (figurative idiom)

  PEI, Mario A. & GAYNOR, Frank. (1954) A Dictionary of Linguistics. New York : Philosophical Library.

• MATTHEWS 1997 128 (also "figurative language")

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2001 116-117 (figurative language)

  CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• MARTIN & RINGHAM 2006 85-86 (figurative element)

  MARTIN, Bronwen & RINGHAM, Felizitas. (2006) Key Terms in Semiotics. London: Continuum.