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Book Review

The moral metaphor system: a conceptual metaphor approach

by Ning Yu, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, xiii + 310 pp., £75 (hardback), ISBN: 9780192866325

Jie HuangSchool of Foreign Languages, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Published online: 11 Jul 2023

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