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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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Taking back control: The role of image schemas in the Brexit discourse
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Can image schemas sustain the discourse on Brexit while building up emotional and evaluative dimensions in the process? This paper analyzes the embodied meaning used in the Brexit discourse as seen through the lens of the pro-leave newspaper (The ...
Victoria Martín de la Rosa
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The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2022 The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related ...
Mujagić Mersina
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Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2022 This paper aims to offer an alternative view for understanding scientific models based on metaphors. To accomplish this, we employ a special case of Darwin’s use of metaphors, such as the notion of powerful Being, in order to represent natural selection.
Deivide Garcia da Silva Oliveira
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Migration, media and “deliberate” metaphors [PDF]
, 2011 metaphorik.de, vol. 2011, no.
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Stroje, texty, sítě a jiné obrazy: metaforický rozměr sociologie
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philosophica et Historica, 2016 Main objective of the article is to explore the sociological implications of the conceptual metaphor theory, which is based on the idea that metaphors are not only discursive ornaments, but rather the basic principle of human thought as such. The article
Jakub Mlynář
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No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by
NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2019 This essay discusses metaphor as a cognitive paradox. It is divided into two parts. The first part outlines a schema explaining the paradox that the authors call ‘prodigal-within-prodigy’ in terms of how metaphor conception creates a contextual ...
Muhammad Tanweer, Khadija Nowaira Abdullah
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DMIP: A Method for Identifying Potentially Deliberate Metaphor in Language Use
, 2018 This paper introduces the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (DMIP), a method for the systematic and reliable identification of potentially deliberate metaphor in language use.
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