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Recipes or blueprints for our genes? How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors

Celeste M. Condit Research Professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Georgia
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Benjamin R. Bates Doctoral students at the University of Georgia
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Ryan Galloway Doctoral students at the University of Georgia
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Sonja Brown Givens Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Huntsville
,
Caroline K. Haynie
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John W. Jordan Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee
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Gordon Stables Doctoral students at the University of Georgia
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Hollis Marshall West Doctoral students at the University of Georgia
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Pages 303-325 | Received 11 Mar 2002, Accepted 04 Feb 2002, Published online: 05 Jun 2009

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