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“Fishers of Humans,” the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor, and Conceptual Blending Theory
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2014 The present study argues for a new interpretation of the expression "fishers of humans" that is sensitive to current understandings of intertextuality, narrative, and metaphor. "Fishers of humans" is treated as a metaphorical expression, being viewed through the apposite lenses of the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor (CTM) and Conceptual Blending Theory
Wassell, Blake E., Llewelyn, Stephen R.
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CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS OF LIFE, DEATH, AND TIME IN WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA’S POETRY
Tạp chí Khoa họcThis article examines how Wisława Szymborska’s poetry utilizes conceptual metaphors to convey the complexities of life, death, and time through the lens of Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive theory of metaphor.
Hoang Xuan Thuong
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On The Gradability of Metaphor
Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricMy purpose in this paper is to demonstrate that metaphor should be viewed as a gradable conceptual phenomenon, and to elucidate further the notion of minimal metaphoric mapping between subordinate level concepts dominated by the same basic level category,
Bierwiaczonek Bogusław
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An investigation into conceptual metaphors denoting pressure in the US Federal Reserve’s discourse
Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệMetaphor plays an important role in shaping how abstract economic phenomena are communicated in institutional discourse. Although metaphor use in economic language has been widely studied, metaphors denoting pressure in central bank communication remain ...
Vu Phuong Quynh, Vo Thi Kim Anh
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Speak Louder Than the Ballot: A Cognitive Study to Election Abstention Metaphors
K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature, 2021 There have been few studies that highlight the use of metaphor in political discourse and election, but none of those studies focus on the election abstention –known in Indonesia as Golput phenomena- and the discussion of the intertwined components in ...
Muhammad Adam
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East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021 Ilona Lechner , Oleksandr Kordonets
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Metaphor identification in a terminological dictionary [PDF]
Ibérica, 2009 This paper aims at demonstrating that metaphor is not simply a literary device, but an integral part of everyday language. The Theory of Conceptual Metaphor suggests that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical.
Maity Siqueira +4 more
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Conceptual metaphor types in oncology
Ibérica, 2017 In this paper, an analysis of conceptual metaphor types and their relation with cognitive and communicative functions is carried out on a sample of oncology research papers.
Ignasi Navarro Ferrando
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A marriage of convenience or an amicable divorce: Metaphorical blends in the debates on Brexit
ExELL (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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No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by
NUML 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
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