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Strategic Use of Metaphor in Nigerian Newspaper Reports: A Critical Perspective
Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2012 Metaphor, a pervasive cognitive phenomenon for encoding social meanings and cultural presuppositions has been implicated as a strategic linguistic tool for the media in swaying public perceptions and assuming consensus for the argument they want to ...
Chinwe Roseann Ezeifeka
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The paradox of metaphor: Why we need a three-dimensional model for metaphor.
, 2008 Current research findings on metaphor in language and thought may be interpreted as producing a paradox of metaphor; that is, most metaphor is not processed metaphorically by a cross-domain mapping involving some form of comparison.
Steen, G.J.
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Metaphors as design tools for microbial consortia: An analysis of recent peer‐reviewed literature
Microbial BiotechnologySingle engineered microbial species cannot always conduct complex transformations, while complex, incompletely defined microbial consortia have heretofore been suited to a limited range of tasks.
Erika Amethyst Szymanski, Marie Turner
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Editorial. Managing Complex Crises
Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2020 The pandemic of COVID-19 generated an unprecedented global crisis with immediate dramatic consequences on human health and life and with long term consequences in the economic, social, educational, and cultural domains in many countries all around the ...
Contantin BRĂTIANU
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, 2017 Since its introduction in 2008, Deliberate Metaphor Theory has given rise to a lot of debate: do deliberate metaphors really exist? If so, what characterizes this type of metaphor? Previous research on the identification of deliberate metaphors has often
Heyvaert, Pauline
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Proximisation, metaphor and threat in experiences of insect and bug phobias
Language and HealthAnimal phobias are a relatively common type of phobia yet are often overlooked in qualitative research into mental health and illness. This study uses discourse analysis informed by cognitive linguistics to investigate people’s experiences of a specific ...
Olivia Knapton
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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)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 MI-GRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably relat ...
Mersina Mujagić
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Polilog: Studia NeofilologiczneThis article investigates constructive ambiguity as a functional linguistic resource in diplomatic discourse, focusing on how semantic, pragmatic, and stylistic mechanisms enable political actors to reach agreement despite unresolved tensions. The study
Marine Mkrtchyan, Marta Gierczyńska
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FoliumThis study examines the linguistic characteristics of British lifestyle blogs as a distinct digital discourse genre that has significantly influenced contemporary media landscape and online communication patterns.
Інеса Мельник +2 more
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This OSF site presents the analyses that are part of a paper in Metaphor & Symbol (2024), Vol. 39, Issue 4. The paper explores the suggestion that most metaphor may be ambiguous between deliberate and non-deliberate meaning, which affords multivalent
Gerard Steen
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