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Deixis and metaphor

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This chapter concludes the introduction of Critical Stylistics and its ten textual–conceptual functions by introducing the construction of a time–space envelope through deixis, the coordinates to anchor a text in relation to time, space and society. In the second part, an introduction to cognitive metaphor theory based on the two-domain approach is presented as an additional tool relevant to the constructions of offenders and victims.

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    Note that a metaphor is usually not reversible, for example, *money is time.

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    Oxford English Dictionary (OED), http://www.oed.com/, accessed 25 March 2016.

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    Ulrike Tabbert (Visiting Research Fellow)

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Tabbert, U. (2016). Deixis and metaphor. In: Language and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45351-8_7

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