On choosing the vehicles of metaphors: Referential concreteness, semantic distances, and individual differences
- 31 August 1989
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Memory and Language
- Vol. 28 (4) , 486-499
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0749-596x(89)90023-5
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