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Language of Love: The Semantics of Passion in Conversational English by Zoltan Kovecses

Language of Love: The Semantics of Passion in Conversational English

Zoltan Kovecses
96 pages
UNKNO
Jan 1988
Hardcover
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Arguing that romantic love is neither an undefinable mystic experience nor a phenomenon reducible to a labeled set of reactions, this study explores love's complexity and structure through analysis of the conventionalized linguistic expressions that speakers of English use to talk about it. Read more Continue reading Read less
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