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The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Discourse Studies, 2012
This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument ...
Andreas Musolff   +40 more
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No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by

open access: yesNUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2019
This essay discusses metaphor as a cognitive paradox. It is divided into two parts. The first part outlines a schema explaining the paradox that the authors call ‘prodigal-within-prodigy’ in terms of how metaphor conception creates a contextual ...
Muhammad Tanweer, Khadija Nowaira Abdullah
doaj   +1 more source

Metaphor in Analytic Philosophy and Cognitive Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article surveys theories of metaphor in analytic philosophy and cognitive science. In particular, it focuses on contemporary semantic, pragmatic and non-cognitivist theories of linguistic metaphor and on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory advanced by ...
Mácha, Jakub
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Translating Conceptual Metaphor: The Processes of Managing Interlingual Asymmetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Encountered at all levels of language, conceptual asymmetries between source and target languages present translators with fundamental challenges that require problem awareness, problem identification and problem solving.
Alves   +71 more
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Multimodal transcription as a tool of understanding visual metaphors [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The articles presents an ongoing study of visual metaphors in terms of cognitive approach. Visual metaphor is viewed by the authors as a cognitive tool that structures the perception of the world.
Kryukova Natalia   +2 more
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan   +4 more
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The role of conceptual metaphors in the new rhetoric [In Persian] [PDF]

open access: yesآموزش زبان، ادبیات و زبانشناسی, 2022
Classical rhetoricians utilized metaphor as one of the literary arrays for the beauty of words and saw ornamentation and word arrangement as important and crucial components in the development of literary works.
Somayye Parmas, Farshid Torkashvand
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Metaphor. The good argument in science communication [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The relation between metaphor and argumentation in science communication is becoming a crucial tool for critical metaphor studies. In this article, by means of a crossed analysis (epistemological, cognitive and linguistic), I focus especially on a ...
Frezza, Giulia
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The translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life.
Fuertes Olivera, Pedro Antonio   +1 more
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Cognitive metaphor as a tool for study of work perception by different professional groups

open access: yesСоциальная психология и общество, 2016
This article contains an analysis of cognitive approach to metaphor and of pos- sibility to use it in researching objects perception by people. Metaphor is considered as a part of thinking process and at the same time as its product, which can be meaning-
Sukhanov E.P.
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