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, 2022 Abstract This chapter offers an overview of conceptual metaphor research with particular attention to specialised language. It surveys the growing body of research showing the role of metaphor both as a tool to generate and develop scientific thinking and as a resource for specialised knowledge popularisation.
Ureña Gómez-Moreno, José Manuel +3 more
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Conceptual Metaphors in Basketball Discourse [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2013 This article presents part of the research performed within the scope of the national project “Conceptual Metaphors in Public Discourse,”1 financed by the Research Council of Lithuania. The aim of the present paper is to analyze conceptual metaphors in the discourse of the European Basketball Championship which took place in Kaunas, Lithuania in 2011 ...
Reda Toleikienė +1 more
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A linguistic study of Islamic religious discourse: conceptual metaphors in the prophetic tradition [PDF]
, 2011 PhDThis study examines the emergence of metaphorical language in the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings and tradition. It principally argues that the selection of metaphors in the Prophetic discourse is chiefly governed by the rhetorical aim of persuasion ...
El-Sharif, Ahmad
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Metaphors and gestures in music teaching: an examination of junior high schools in Taiwan [PDF]
, 2010 In cognitive metaphor theory, metaphor is a conceptual and experiential process that structures our world. This study, taking an applied linguistic' view on CMT, examines how metaphor is manifested in speech and via gestures by music teachers in ...
Chuang, Ya-Chin
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Metaphors of Globalization [PDF]
, 2021 The organization and function of human society in the global economy is, in the current discourse, part of epistemology, developed on the broader link of social sciences with scientific creativity and artistic imagination.
Doina Butiurcă
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Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Lexicon and figurative language -, 2003 The goal of this paper is to integrate the Conceptual Mapping Model with an ontology-based knowledge representation (i.e. Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)) in order to demonstrate that conceptual metaphor analysis can be restricted and eventually, automated.
Kathleen Ahrens +2 more
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Explaining time-oriented conceptual metaphors in place in Persian fourth grade primary school text book based on Lakoff and Johnson’s approach [PDF]
فصلنامه نوآوریهای آموزشی, 2022 The concept of reading literacy is one of the important goals of educational research through which students perceive and understand textbooks during the educational period.
Seyede Parvin Sā’emin +2 more
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Domains of Political Metaphors in Presidential Speeches
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2017 Speeches are products of human minds reflecting ideas and opinions of the speakers. Crystal (1987) mentions that the way people use language does not only give us information about their geographical, ethnic and social background, but it also reflects ...
Truly Almendo Pasaribu
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(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]
, 2013 Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Conceptual metaphors of TIME in translation: The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2014 This research focuses on conceptual TIME metaphors in Kristijonas Donelaitis’s The Seasons in order to supplement a so far scarce research in Lithuania of conceptual metaphors in translation, as time metaphors constitute fundamental aspects of culture ...
Eglė Vaivadaitė-Kaidi
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