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Mapping metaphors of wealth and want: a digital approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The AHRC-funded Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus project aims to provide data on the extent and development of metaphor across the history of English.
Alexander, Marc, Bramwell, Ellen
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Is This a Metaphor? On the Difficult Task of Identifying Metaphors in Scientific Discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article focuses on the problem of metaphor identification in scientific language. In Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphors are often observed on the conceptual level.
Goschler, Juliana
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The Invention of Traditional Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Sunder argues that the failure of intellectual property to recognize the contributions of traditional and natural sources cannot be rectified by mere payment and she posits a non-monetizable, non-utilitarian benefit in terms of worth or dignity in having
Sunder, Madhavi
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Poetic metaphor and everyday metaphor: a corpus-based contrastive study of metaphors of SADNESS in poetry and non-literary discourse [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Conceptual Metaphor Theory holds that metaphor is a ubiquitous phenomenon that frequently manifests itself in ordinary discourse rather than a rhetorical device characteristic of literary language.
Ding, Y, Noel, D, Wolf, HH
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A marriage of convenience or an amicable divorce: Metaphorical blends in the debates on Brexit

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2017
The paper investigates the interaction of conceptual blending and conceptual metaphor in producing figurative creativity in discourse. The phenomenon of figurative creativity is defined by Kövecses (2005) as creativity arising through the cognitive ...
Berberović Sanja, Mujagić Mersina
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A cultural cognitive study of EARTH metaphors in Chinese and English idioms

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study provides a comparative analysis of EARTH metaphors in Chinese and English idioms from a cultural cognitive perspective. Using a corpus-based approach, it explores the similarities and differences in the metaphorical uses of EARTH across the ...
Chuanhong Chen
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Conceptual metaphor in Michelle Obama's 2012 re-election speeches [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
En su discurso de aceptación tras su reelección como Presidente de los Estados Unidos de 7 de noviembre de 2012, Barack Obama agradecía a la Primera Dama su apoyo incondicional.
López Cirugeda, Isabel   +1 more
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