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Unconventional Metaphor Use in the Writing of Chinese Learners of English
SAGE OpenMetaphors are known to present both opportunities and challenges for second language learners, but relatively little is known about learners’ awareness of them.
Qiuyun Lu, Alice Deignan
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Charles Tomlinson and the Nameless You
Names, 2006 The British poet Charles Tomlinson (1927--) frequently addresses his poems to a specific but unnamed listener-companion. Such deliberate concealment of identity achieves a paradoxical effect: it stimulates readers’ curiosity and heightens the importance ...
Judith P. Saunders
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Metaphors in political communication [PDF]
Journal of Language and Politics, 2019 Abstract This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type ...
Pauline Heyvaert +4 more
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A network of conventional and deliberate metaphors in Psalm 22 [PDF]
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2020 Metaphors are not stand-alone units, but figure often in larger chains and regularly build upon each other. Yet, not all metaphors are the same. Some are very simple, such as the simile, while other metaphors require more active cross-domain mapping in thought.
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Conceptual metaphor types in oncology
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 Ferrando
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L’écriture au second degré et sa valeur communicationnelle dans le discours poétique
Interlitteraria, 2013 Writing in the second degree and its communicational value in poetic discourse. The article takes a look at some poetic strategies pertaining to writing “in the second degree”, and their more general implications, mostly from a communicational ...
Carmen Popescu
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Some Wondrous Effects of Inner Calm, as Described and Explained in Yu Yan’s Zhouyi cantong qi fahui
Religions, 2019 This essay examines what Yu Yan’s Zhouyi cantong qi fahui says about the suspension of breathing and pulse, as well as the extraordinary inner sensations and visions that accompany it.
Stephen Eskildsen
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ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Cro-atian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor ...
Mersina Mujagić, Sanja Berberović
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The Network Contagion: Individualism, network metaphors and the dotcom boom
IkhtilafIn American culture, the internet or dotcom bubble can be said to have coincided with an intense rise in individualistic sentiment as well as higher rates of burnout. The appearance of internet networks gave rise to humans increasingly seeing themselves
Zara Richter
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Verifying Biblical Allusions in John 1:51: A Methodological Framework for Genesis Reception Studies
The Biblical AnnalsCurrent methodologies for identifying biblical allusions in the Fourth Gospel, while extensive, often struggle with texts that operate through imagery and metaphor.
Tomasz Tułodziecki
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