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Investigating Metaphors of COVID-19 – in Related English Texts
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
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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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
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Artykuł w: Etnolingwistyka. T. 34 (2022), s. 79-94 ; Artykuł w: Etnolingwistyka. T. 34 (2022), s.
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Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]
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.
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Metaphor and the representations of health and illness among the Semai indigenous community in Malaysia [PDF]
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
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
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
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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
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