figurative meaning

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Sources

• NASH 1968 78

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

• WALES 1989 175

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

• NÖTH 1990 131

  NÖTH, Winfried. (1990) Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 

• BEEKMAN & CALLOW 1974 124 (figurative sense)

  BEEKMAN, John & CALLOW, John. (1974) Translating the Word of God. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. 

• PEI & GAYNOR 1954 73

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

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 240 (nonliteral meaning)

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 128 (figurative sense)

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