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iberica-344	Silaski, Nadezda; Durovic, Tatjana	Catching the inflation by the tail: animal metaphoric imagery in the conceptualisation of inflation in English 	2010-01-02	24	.pdf	application/pdf	9009	365	45	(51) http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_41/b4053058.htm, Business Week (“Why The Fed’s Cut Won’t Spark Inflation”, 8 Oct 2007) (52) http://www.eef.org.uk/policy-media/releases/uk/2006/Inflation+beast+still+slumbering+say+ manufacturers.htm, EEF.org.uk (“Inflation beast still slumbering say manufacturers”, 12 Nov 2006) (53)http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/articleshow/articleshow/3097763.cms, The Economic Times (“Inflation to be trapped with neo matrix”, by Amiti Sen and Deepshikha Sikarwar, 4 Jun 2008) However, in order to verify the validity of our intuitive judgement as regards the conceptualisation of inflation as a wild animal in English – since “intuitions are not necessarily explicit and systematic” (Semino, 2008: 14) – as well as to corroborate our observation by authentic linguistic data, we conducted a Google search in which the query was inflation beast, combined with a small number of words referring to the salient features of (wild) animals (mainly verbs2 which describe the ways animals move – e.g. gallop, crawl, trot, hack, etc., eat – e.g. gobble, devour, etc., look – e.g. jaws, claws, etc. and sound – e.g. howl, bellow, bark, growl, etc.).	cache/iberica-344.pdf	txt/iberica-344.txt