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Metaphors of 'Worldly Life' and 'Hereafter' in the Holy Quran: A Conceptual Approach

open access: yesمجلة اداب ذي قار
          Conceptual Metaphor is a theory that is associated with cognitive semantics, in which metaphor is seen as a process of understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another.
Aziz Khalaf Abid Saleh   +1 more
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Conceptual metaphor in political communication

open access: yesZbornik Sveučilišta u Dubrovniku, 2016
Conceptual metaphors are considered as effective linguistic formulas for achieving the persuasive language function. This paper approaches the subject of conceptual metaphor and political argumentation through the prism of synergies of the political topic, affirmative or negative communication of main ideas related to the topic, the use of conceptual ...
Borčić, Nikolina   +2 more
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The metaphorical rise of entrepreneurship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The words that have come to be associated with innovative and creative business enterprises – entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial – have their English origins in the realm of armed conflict.
Cardow, Andrew
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Metaphors of a conflicted self in the journals of Sylvia Plath [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper presents some of the results of a study that aims to investigate how mental states can be conveyed linguistically in texts of a personal nature.
Demjén, Zsófia
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Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article is a contribution to a symposium that focuses on the ideas of Margaret Jane Radin as a point of departure, and particularly on her analyses of propertization and commodification.
Madison, Michael J, Taylor, George H
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