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Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors

20001,821 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Lera Boroditsky · Stanford University

Topics & Keywords

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Categorization, perception, and language Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Publication Details

Published in: Cognition

Volume 75, Issue 1, pp. 1-28

DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00073-6

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 12.88

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