Duration as Length Vs Amount in English and Spanish: A Corpus Study

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Metaphor and Symbol 36 (2):74-84 (2021)
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Previous psycholinguistic studies have suggested that English and Spanish express temporal duration through different metaphors. English tends to use the time-as-length metaphor (e.g. I have been w...

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