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Investigating Metaphors of COVID-19 – in Related English Texts

open access: yesمجلة ابحاث كلية التربية الاساسية
This study investigates metaphors in COVID-19- related English texts. The study shows an overview on how people are suffer from  pandemic and its negative effects, it is not preferable to talk about COVID-19 always explicitly.
Mazin Fawzi Ahmed, Hajer Akram Jasim
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Speak Louder Than the Ballot: A Cognitive Study to Election Abstention Metaphors

open access: yesK@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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Critical Discourse Analysis in Corporate Reports: Legitimation Strategies in the Context of Environmental Controversies

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of environmental disclosure as a strategic tool to manage legitimacy crises in a mining company, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the main methodology. Focusing on a case of environmental disaster, this research reveals how corporate narratives can be manipulated to minimize responsibility and reinforce
Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three cognitive frameworks for analyzing metaphoric plant names: Cognitive Grammar, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory

open access: yesEtnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury, 2022
Artykuł w: Etnolingwistyka. T. 34 (2022), s. 79-94 ; Artykuł w: Etnolingwistyka. T. 34 (2022), s.
openaire   +1 more source

Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
core   +1 more source

Metaphor and the representations of health and illness among the Semai indigenous community in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Diverse methods and approaches have been utilised in researching the cultural bases of health, illness and wellbeing. Understanding the cultural representation of health and illness of particular communities becomes urgent especially when the community
Chan, Mei Yuit   +3 more
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On The Gradability of Metaphor

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
My 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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Developing interactive animations as a learning tool for work integrated learning

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The role of field education for social work students is fundamental to linking students' theory to practice. Field education refers to the practical component of educational programmes where students gain hands‐on experience in their field of study.
Amanda Gigliotti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local realities, global discourses and decolonising the curriculum in a post‐92 UK context: Academic voices on enacting decolonial curriculum change

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
wiley   +1 more source

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