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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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METAPHORS IN COMMUNICATION – DELIBERATE METAPHOR THEORY AND MODIFIED EXPLICATURE ANALYSIS
, 2022 This paper aims to examine two approaches to metaphor treatment that deem the communicative aspect as relevant. One approach emerged within the cognitive linguistics, as a response to Theory of Conceptual Metaphor − Deliberate Metaphor Theory.
Manojlović, Nina
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Time as the fifth element in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle
Acta Neophilologica, 2007 Margaret Laurence's Manawaka cycle has several unifying features, one of them is the four elements theory. This pattern may not be deliberate, however, it is very well developed through all four novels: The Stone Angel represents earth, A Jest of God air,
Brigita Pavšič
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Figurative language of segregation: the phenomenon of “two schools under one roof”
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a society in which ethno-nationalist rhetoric and war memories permeate public discourse. This paper investigates the use of metaphors in media texts written in English and the Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian ...
Mersina Mujagić, Edin Dupanović
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Conceptual metaphor types in oncology: Cognitive and communicative functions [PDF]
Ibérica, 2017 In this paper, an analysis of conceptual metaphor types and their relation with cognitive and communicative functions is carried out on a sample of oncology research papers.
Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
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