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Rethinking Critical Metaphor Analysis
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2016 <p>Critical Metaphor Analysis is concerned with integrating critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics to explore implicit speaker intentions and covert power relations through the analysis of metaphoric expressions.
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Ecclesial metaphor in the epistle to the Ephesians from the perspective of a modern theory of metaphor [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis approaches ecclesial metaphor in Ephesians from the vantage point of modern theories of metaphor from which concepts are borrowed and shaped into methods for evaluating ancient metaphor.
McVay, John Kenneth
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Critical Metaphor Analysis of Political Discourse in Nigeria
English Language Teaching, 2018 Metaphor is an important figure of speech copiously deployed in political discourse. In this study, we adopted the framework of Charteris-Black’s (2004) Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) which derives from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).This framework is interested in exploring the implicit intentions of language users, the ideological configurations
Isaiah I. Agbo +2 more
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2015 Reform has recently become an imperative topic in Jordanian politics. After waiting long for tangible political and economic programs to be initiated by political parties, King Abdullah II of Jordan introduced his vision of reform. Reform is a priority,
Ahmad El-Sharif
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South African Journal of Business Management, 2005 This paper investigates the importance of metaphor in strategy in several ways. Firstly it considers the problematic nature of ‘strategy’ itself. Next, it outlines some views on how metaphor is used in strategy discourse, with particular emphasis on ...
J. Foster-Pedley, D. Bond, R. Brown
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Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2021 The present paper re-addresses metaphor based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The metaphors selected pertain to political discourse, precisely Trump’s statements on different occasions and from different ...
Abidi Hajer
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Aspects of the problems of translating metaphor, with special reference to modern Arabic poetry [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis examines a crucial area in the translation of poetic discourse, the translatability of modern Arabic metaphor into English. Two main questions are addressed. Firstly, what makes a particular metaphor easy to translate? Secondly, what makes
Obeidat, Hisham T. B.
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Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2021 Since it emerged in China at the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 virus has spread to almost every country in the world. In response to the health and economic crisis triggered by the pandemic, political legislators were forced to declare a state of ...
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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Strategic Use of Metaphor in Nigerian Newspaper Reports: A Critical Perspective
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2012 Metaphor, a pervasive cognitive phenomenon for encoding social meanings and cultural presuppositions has been implicated as a strategic linguistic tool for the media in swaying public perceptions and assuming consensus for the argument they want to ...
Chinwe Roseann Ezeifeka
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Development’s disappearance: A metaphor analysis of sustainable development in Norwegian core curriculum [PDF]
, 2022 The article presents findings from a critical metaphor analysis of ‘sustainable development’ in the current and former versions of the Norwegian formal education curriculum.
Tollefsen, Irene
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