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Natural Gender and Cultural Cognition in Albanian Animal Idioms: How Male-Female Animal Pairs Structure Figurative Meaning Cover

Natural Gender and Cultural Cognition in Albanian Animal Idioms: How Male-Female Animal Pairs Structure Figurative Meaning

By: Rezearta Murati  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjir-2025-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2411-9725 | Journal ISSN: 2410-759X
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 17
Published on: Dec 12, 2025
Published by: International Institute for Private, Commercial and Competition Law
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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