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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
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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Content of conceptual metaphors in political discourse [PDF]
The paper analyzes the content of conceptual metaphors in political discourse in Bosnia and Herzegovina and on the basis of the content index of analyzed metaphors it tries to determine if metaphors, used by Bosnian-Herzegovinian politicians, show ...
Ivana Zovko-Bošnjak
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Metaphors of Globalization [PDF]
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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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]
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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Conceptual metaphors of TIME in translation: The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis
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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Domains of Political Metaphors in Presidential Speeches
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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Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language [PDF]
THE ‘lOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY FOUNDEI) BY FREDERICK J. E. WOODBRIDGE AND WENDELL '1'. EUSH Editors: john H. Randall, jr. (honorary) and Herbert W. Schneider (honorary), Bernard Berofsky. Arthur C. Danto, Sidney Morgenbesser, Charles D. Parsons, James ]. Walsh. Consulting Editors: James Higginbotham and Isaac Levi. Managing Editor: Leigh 8. Cauman.
Lakoff, George, Johnson, Mark
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Bruk av metaforer om kjemiske bindinger i kreativ skriving
The basis for this study is to use students' creative texts in science as a mean to gain insight into their conceptual ideas. Eight grade students' creative writing tasks (n = 26) were analyzed with respect to the conceptual metaphors that were used to ...
Anne Holt, Anne Bergliot Øyehaug
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