Metaphorical framing of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: A corpus driven critical analysis of war metaphors in news media. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMetaphors are an essential part of how humans process and understand the world. Cognitive linguistics does not view metaphors as merely linguistic or rhetorical devices; rather, they are conceptual in nature and are central to the thought process ...
Arooj Rana +3 more
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Metaphorical construction of the belt and road initiative in German media: a transnational study based on critical metaphor analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionMedia representations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) play a significant role in shaping public understanding of China’s flagship transnational initiative. Despite growing scholarly interest in BRI discourse, the metaphorical mechanisms
Haiying Qiu
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Examining Nurses’ Views on Positive Clinical Working Environments Integrating With Their Religious Beliefs and Determining Their Metaphors: Qualitative Research [PDF]
Journal of Nursing Management, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Objective This study aims to examine nurses’ views on positive clinical work environments integrated with their religious beliefs and to determine their metaphors. Method The study population consisted of nurses working in a university hospital in eastern Turkey between May 6 and 16, 2025.
Serpil Özcan +2 more
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Large language models prompt engineering as a method for embodied cognitive linguistic representation: a case study of political metaphors in Trump’s discourse [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyEmbodied-Cognitive Linguistics inherits and further develops the core concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, maintaining a focus on embodied cognition and conceptual metaphors.
Haohan Meng, Xiaoyu Li, Jinhua Sun
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On China's image constructed from western news coverage of China's humanitarian aid. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDespite the growing body of research on media representations of China during the COVID-19 outbreak, limited scholarly attention has been devoted to Western news coverage of specific events involving China.
Lei Sun
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Slavia MeridionalisThe paper analyses The Economist’s narrative of the 2022 energy crisis in Europe. Conducted within the theoretical framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA), the analysis establishes that The Economist constructs the EU’s image through a DISEASE ...
Rositsa Ishpekova +1 more
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Micro-celebrities’ concept of hijrah: a critical metaphor analysis [PDF]
, 2020 The integration between the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the pragmatic aspect of the metaphor usage has resulted in the emergence of the Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) approach to examine metaphors in public discourse. By applying this approach,
Rofiq, Zainur
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New Constructions of Existential Unforgeable Aggregate Signature Scheme from CSP
Security and Communication Networks, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 In future, hundreds of years of mathematical problems that the security of public key cryptography algorithms rely on may be defeated by quantum algorithms. How can a digital signature scheme gracefully balance security and efficiency? This study uses the conjugate search problem and the left self‐distributive system to combine and uses the RSA‐like ...
Bo Mi +5 more
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The conceptual metaphor of animals used for praise and satire in Al Ghaddafi’s discourse
, 2023 Metaphor in the local language plays in daily life besides their role in rhetoric and poetry. This work shall focus on the positives and negatives of using the metaphor of animals in Al Ghaddafi’s used animal metaphors in his speeches, under the ...
Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan +3 more
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