(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]
, 2013 Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation [PDF]
, 2001 A key issue for models of metaphor comprehension is to explain how in some metaphorical comparison , only some features of B are transferred to A. The features of B that are transferred to A depend both on A and on B.
Thomas, Michael S.C., Mareschal, Denis
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Metaphor Translation from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory: Based on the Analysis of Imagery“红酥手”in Song Ci [PDF]
, 2020 Metaphor can be considered as a figure of speech. Moreover, it also represents a human cognitive activity, manifesting its cultural information.
ZHANG, Jie
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Ecclesial metaphor in the epistle to the Ephesians from the perspective of a modern theory of metaphor [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis approaches ecclesial metaphor in Ephesians from the vantage point of modern theories of metaphor from which concepts are borrowed and shaped into methods for evaluating ancient metaphor.
McVay, John Kenneth
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Data, problems, heuristics and results in cognitive metaphor research [PDF]
, 2012 Cognitive metaphor research is characterised by the diversity of rival theories. Starting from this observation, the paper focuses on the problem of how the unity and diversity of cognitive theories of metaphor can be accounted for. The first part of the
Kertész, András +2 more
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Cognitive Metaphor Theory and the Metaphysics of Immediacy [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2015 AbstractOne of the core tenets of cognitive metaphor theory is the claim that metaphors ground abstract knowledge in concrete, first‐hand experience. In this paper, I argue that this grounding hypothesis contains some problematic conceptual ambiguities and, under many reasonable interpretations, empirical difficulties. I present evidence that there are
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Křesťanství jako pravdivý mýtus: Kognitivní teorie metafory a její význam pro fundamentální teologii
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica, 2018 The aim of the article is to investigate the theory of conceptual metaphor with regard to its possible use in fundamental theology. Instead of focusing on the analysis of concrete metaphors, the article argues that it is first necessary to reflect on the
Barbora Šmejdová
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A metaphorical characterization of D.J. Opperman's Komas uit 'n bamboesstok in terms of relevance theory and the contemporary theory of metaphor [PDF]
, 2009 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-198).Similar to previous academic papers on the topic of relevance, this dissertation too responds to specific claims proposed by relevance theory.
Van Rooyen, Ian William
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A Conceptual Study of Metaphorical Illustration Applied for Hellfire in Qur’anic Text
Journal of Islamic and Religious Studies, 2020 This study aims to explore the metaphors of fire and hell from Holy Qur'ān utilizing conceptual analysis and by keeping in view the discussion of cognitive linguistic and cognitive perspectives of metaphor.
Musferah Mehfooz +2 more
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Feminine Conceptual Metaphors in the Poetry of Forough Farrokhzad and Ghadat al-Saman [PDF]
ادبیات تطبیقی, 2019 Contrary to traditional theories where metaphor was considered as one of the four rhetorical techniques, in cognitive theory, metaphor literary language is not unique to literary language, but it exists in the totality of language.
Saeed Zohrevand, Hossein Jabbarpur
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