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More than cool reason

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More than cool reason: A field guide to poetic metaphor, by George Lakoff and Mark Turner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Pp. xii, 230. $11.95.

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Ray Jackendoff  and
David Aaron
Ray Jackendoff*
Affiliation:
Brandeis University
David Aaron*
Affiliation:
Wellesley College
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Ray Jackendoff, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254
David Aaron, Department of Religion, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181
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Language , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 320 - 338
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Copyright © 1991 by Linguistic Society of America

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We are grateful to George Lakoff, Mark Turner, Sarah Thomason, and an anonymous reader for many helpful comments on an earlier version of this review article. This research was supported in part by NSF Grant IRI 90–46528 to Brandeis University.

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