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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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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 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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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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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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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023 As there is lack of a research synthesis on metaphor in tourism discourse up to date, the paper offers a novel contribution by summarising empirical literature on metaphor use in print and digital tourism promotional materials and identifying the ...
Nazi Iritspukhova
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‘Vaccine as a cheat sheet’: a metaphor gone awry on Facebook
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 COVID-19 vaccine-related conspiracy narratives skyrocketed in social media in the first year of the pandemic. Science communicators have tried to debunk false information as did Vlad Mixich, a Romanian public health expert, who tried to explain on ...
Elena Negrea-Busuioc
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Space and Romance: a Study of Feminist Position in Miss Sophia’s Diary and Sealed Off [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 Interrogating two cases, Sealed Off and Miss Sophia’s Diary, this paper seeks to apply spatial narrative theories to extract two spatial dimensions, namely physical-space and subjective-space, and interpret the authoresses’ feminist positions based on ...
Yu Zhengjun, Liu Yitong
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