Translating Conceptual Metaphor: The Processes of Managing Interlingual Asymmetry [PDF]
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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The development of the five mini-theories of self-determination theory: an historical overview, emerging trends, and future directions [PDF]
Self-determination theory is a macro-theory of human motivation, emotion, and personality that has been under development for 40 years following the seminal work of Edward Deci and Richard Ryan.
Niemiec, Christopher P +2 more
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Feminine Conceptual Metaphors in the Poetry of Forough Farrokhzad and Ghadat al-Saman [PDF]
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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Cognitive Metaphor Theory and the Metaphysics of Immediacy [PDF]
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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An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer [PDF]
In this article, we examine the notion of ‘framing’ as a function of metaphor from three interrelated perspectives—cognitive, discourse-based, and practice-based—with the aim of providing an adaptable blueprint of good practice in framing analysis.
Demjén, Z, Demmen, J, Semino, E
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IDIOMS IN ACTION: A CASE OF CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR THEORY VS BLENDING THEORY
This paper addresses the question of how the Conceptual Metaphor Theory with its well-established mechanism of cross-domain conceptual mappings, on the one hand, and the Conceptual Integration Theory, or Blending Theory with its mechanism of combining ...
Yurii Kovalyuk
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A Conceptual Study of Metaphorical Illustration Applied for Hellfire in Qur’anic Text
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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Why 'scaffolding' is the wrong metaphor : the cognitive usefulness of mathematical representations. [PDF]
The metaphor of scaffolding has become current in discussions of the cognitive help we get from artefacts, environmental affordances and each other.
A Clark +21 more
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The editorial board hopes with this special issue on metaphor to illustrate some tendencies in current metaphor research. In our ‘Call for papers’ we had originally signalled that we wanted contributions dealing with both linguistic and literary ...
Kay Wikberg
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Auslegung: A journal of philosophy, volume 15, number 2 (summer, 1989) book reviews [PDF]
Review of J. D. G. Evans's "Aristotle"; William James's "Essays, Comments, and Reviews"; Earl R. MacCormac's "A Cognitive Theory of Metaphor"; David Kelley's "The Evidence of the Senses"; Geoffrey Bennington's "Lyotard: Writing the ...
Staff, Editorial
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