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1.
McGraw-Hill's dictionary of American idioms and phrasal verbs
Richard A. Speares
by
Spears, Richard A
Publication details:
New York
McGraw-Hill
c2005
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Call number:
423.130973 SPE
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2.
McGraw-Hill's dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Richard A. Spears
by
Spears, Richard A
Edition:
4th ed
Publication details:
New York
McGraw-Hill
2006
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Call number:
427.97303 SPE
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3.
Metaphor and nation : metaphors Afrikaners live by
René Dirven
by
Dirven, René
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
c1994
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Call number:
306.440968 DIR
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4.
Mighty fine words and smashing expressions : making sense of transatlantic English
Orin Hargraves
by
Hargraves, Orin
Publication details:
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2003
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Call number:
428.00941 HAR
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5.
NTC's dictionary of British slang and colloquial expressions
Ewart James
by
James, Ewart
Publication details:
Lincolnwood, Ill
NTC Pub. Group
c1997
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Call number:
427.941 JAM
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6.
NTC's dictionary of folksy, regional, and rural sayings
compiled by Anne Bertram ; edited by Richard A. Spears
by
Bertram, Anne
Spears, Richard A
Edition:
1st ed
Publication details:
Lincolnwood, Ill
NTC Pub. Group
1996
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Call number:
427.973 BER
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7.
On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language
Rachel Giora
by
Giora, Rachel
Publication details:
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2003
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Call number:
401.9 GIO
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8.
Persius and the programmatic satire; a study in form and imagery
by J. C. Bramble
by
Bramble, J. C
Publication details:
Cambridge
University Press
1974
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Call number:
877.01 BRA
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9.
The internal and the external : a comparison of the artistic use of natural imagery in English Romantic and Chinese classic poetry
Zuoya Cao
by
Cao, Zuoya
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
1998
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Call number:
895.1 CAO
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10.
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The Oxford dictionary of catchphrases
compiled by Anna Farkas
by
Farkas, Anna
Publication details:
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2002
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Call number:
423.1 FAR
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11.
The path of the Argo : language, imagery, and narrative in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
R.J. Clare
by
Clare, R. J
Publication details:
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2002
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Call number:
883.01 CLA
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12.
The poetics of mind : figurative thought, language, and understanding
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr
by
Gibbs, Raymond W
Publication details:
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1994
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Call number:
401.9 GIB
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13.
The use of imagery in Wolfram's Parzival : a distributional study
Patricia L. Kutzner
by
Kutzner, Patricia L
Publication details:
Bern, Frankfurt
Herbert Lang ; Peter Lang
1975
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Call number:
831.2 KUT
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14.
Time's purpled masquers : stars and the afterlife in Renaissance English literature
Alastair Fowler
by
Fowler, Alastair
Publication details:
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1996
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Call number:
820.9356 FOW
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15.
Tropical truth(s) : the epistemology of metaphor and other tropes
edited by Armin Burkhardt and Brigitte Nerlich
by
Burkhardt, Armin
Nerlich, Brigitte
Publication details:
Berlin ; New York
De Gruyter
c2010
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Call number:
401 BUR
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16.
Understanding tropes : at the crossroads between pragmatics and cognition
Javier Herrero Ruiz
by
Herrero Ruiz, Javier
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
c2009
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Call number:
415.01 RUI
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17.
Viva dictionary of everyday American English expressions : presented according to topic and situation
Richard A. Spears, Steven R. Kleinedler, Betty J. Birner
by
Spears, Richard A
Birner, Betty J
Kleinedler, Steven Racek
Publication details:
Lincolnwood, Ill
National Textbook Co
c1998
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Call number:
423.1 VIV
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18.
Call a spade a spade : from classical phrase to racial slur : a case study
Wolfgang Mieder
by
Mieder, Wolfgang
Publication details:
Frankfurt am Main ; New York
Peter Lang
c2002
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Call number:
422 MIE
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19.
Common American phrases in everyday contexts : a detailed guide to real-life conversation and small talk
Richard A. Spears
by
Spears, Richard A
Edition:
2nd ed
Publication details:
New York
McGraw-Hill
c2003
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Call number:
423.1 SPE
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20.
Descriptionary : a thematic dictionary
Marc McCutcheon
by
McCutcheon, Marc
Edition:
3rd ed
Publication details:
New York
Checkmark Books
2004
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Call number:
420.78 MAC
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21.
Dictionary of idioms and their origins
Linda and Roger Flavell
by
Flavell, Linda
Flavell, Roger
Edition:
1st ed
Publication details:
London
Kyle Cathie
1992
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Call number:
423.13 FLA
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22.
English-German dictionary of idioms : supplement to the German-English dictionary of idioms
Hans Schemann, Paul Knight
by
Knight, Paul
Schemann, Hans
Publication details:
London ; New York
Routledge
c1997
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Call number:
423.21 SCH
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23.
Even more parts : idioms from head to toe
Tedd Arnold
by
Arnold, Tedd
Publication details:
New York
Scholastic
2005
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Call number:
372.677049 ARN
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24.
Figurative language and thought
Albert N. Katz ... [et al.]
by
Katz, Albert N
Publication details:
Oxford
Oxford University Press
1998
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Call number:
401.9 KAT
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25.
Figurative language in Cynewulf : defining aspects of a poetic style
Joseph D. Wine
by
Wine, Joseph D
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
c1993
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Call number:
829.4 WIN
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26.
Figures of speech : 60 ways to turn a phrase
Arthur Quinn
by
Quinn, Arthur
Publication details:
Abingdon, Oxon
Routledge
1993
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Call number:
808 QUI
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27.
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From heaven to hell : imagery of earth, air, water, and fire in the novels of Georges Bernanos
Daniel R. Morris
by
Morris, Daniel R
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
c1989
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Call number:
843.912 BER
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28.
Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov's last Russian novel ([Dar]), its English translation (the Gift), and other prose works of the 1930s
Nassim Winnie Berdjis
by
Berdjis, Nassim Winnie
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
1995
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Call number:
891.7432 BER
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29.
Imagery of colour & shining in Catullus, Propertius & Horace
Jacqueline Clarke
by
Clarke, Jacqueline
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
c2003
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Call number:
871.010936 CLA
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30.
Inheritance of features in metaphoric mappings in English
Michal Janowski
by
Janowski, Michal
Edition:
1st ed
Publication details:
Bern
Peter Lang
2009
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Call number:
420.143 JAN
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31.
Interaction in poetic imagery : with special reference to early Greek poetry
M.S. Silk
by
Silk, M. S
Publication details:
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2006
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Call number:
881.0109 SIL
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32.
Let's talk Turkey : the stories behind America's favorite expressions
by Rosemarie Ostler
by
Ostler, Rosemarie
Publication details:
Amherst, NY
Prometheus Books
2008
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Call number:
427.973 OST
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33.
A glossary of Shakespeare's sexual language
Gordon Williams
by
Williams, Gordon
Publication details:
London
Continuum
2006
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Call number:
822.33 SHA
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34.
A glossary of Shakespeare's sexual language
Gordon Williams
by
Williams, Gordon
Publication details:
London
Continuum
2006
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35.
A proverb in mind : the cognitive science of proverbial wit and wisdom
Richard P. Honeck
by
Honeck, Richard P
Publication details:
Hillsdale, N.J
L. Erlbaum Associates
1997
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Call number:
398.9 HON
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36.
American slang dictionary : the ultimate reference to nonstandard usage, colloquialisms, popular jargon, and vulgarisms
Richard A. Spears
by
Spears, Richard A
Publication details:
New York
McGraw-Hill
2006
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Call number:
427.941 SPE
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