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Politics metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian migration discourse

Russian Journal of Linguistics
As the geopolitical situation changes, it is necessary to discuss how politics is structured by metaphor in the context of recent social phenomena, such as the European migrant crisis.
Mersina Mujagić
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From Viewpoint to Reverse Metaphorization: An Analysis of Deliberate Visual Metaphors in Lifelong Learning

Научный диалог
This study investigates the deliberate use of visual metaphors on a university website. The research material comprises images featured in thematic sections related to lifelong learning (LLL).
N. V. Mongilyova, Y. S. Talybova
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“No man is an island”: How Chinese netizens use deliberate metaphors to provide “depression sufferers” with social support

Digital Health
Objective Online social support provides a way to positively influence depression sufferers. In the present study, we aim to analyze how social support in Chinese online depression communities is communicated through the lens of deliberate metaphor ...
Youping Jing, Guiying Jiang
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Figurative Conceptualizations of Nations, Countries, and Institutions in Newspaper Articles on Migration

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023
The paper discusses figurative conceptualizations of nations, countries, and institutions as either a container, a person, a sinking ship, a fabric, or hell in media discourse on the European migrant crisis.
Mersina Mujagić
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Developing productive metaphoric competence through a frame-inspired task-based teaching model

Crossroads, 2023
The paper reports preliminary findings from applying a frame-inspired task-based approach to metaphor teaching in an EFL classroom. The teaching model used combines Frame Semantics, a cognitive linguistic theory that takes a usage-based view of meaning,
Thomai Dalpanagioti
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Uses and functions of conceptual metaphor in pedagogical meditation discourse

Estudios de Lingüística, 2022
In mindfulness and meditation instructional contexts, conceptual metaphor is a powerful facilitator of intersubjective communication about inner events and first-person experiences. Previous studies in meditation discourse have described space
Antonio-José Silvestre-López
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The Psychological Reality of Chinese Deliberate Metaphors from the Reception Side: An Experimental Approach

Brain Sciences, 2023
While the psychological reality of deliberate metaphors remains in ongoing doubt, this study attests to their psychological reality in the Chinese language.
Juanjuan Wang, Jiajun Du, Ting Zheng, Yi Sun   +3 more
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THE FORCE METAPHOR IN CONCEPTUALIZING ECONOMIC RECESSION [PDF]

Respectus Philologicus, 2013
Cognitive metaphor analysts comprehend metaphor as a convenient way of not only talking about real life events but also thinking about them: connecting ideas, explaining abstract ideas that are difficult to grasp, conveying messages and emotions, etc ...
Jurga Cibulskienė
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The Death Taboo: Euphemism and Metaphor in Epitaphs from the English Cemetery of Malaga, Spain

Languages, 2023
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human ...
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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Metaphor as a means of creating a humorous effect in Bulgarian media texts

The European Journal of Humour Research, 2021
The paper is devoted to the questions of metaphor as a linguistic means and cognitive mechanism for creating a humorous effect in Bulgarian media texts. There is a similarity between the nature of metaphors and the humor, the ability of perception which ...
Elena Viktotrovna Stoyanova
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