# Analogies and blends - new category old ideas

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The piece defines analogies as elaborated metaphors and outlines their cognitive, textual, and interactive functions.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 January 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 1 January 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: analogy, metaphor, conceptual-blending, discourse-analysis.

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